William Golding Quotes

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

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• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
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  • Dream

• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

  Hans Kung
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  • Men

• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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  • Time
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• Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

  

  Ira Glass
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• In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

  

  Gary Jennings
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• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

  

  Camryn Manheim
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  • Political

• Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• Kids hate anyone who is different.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

  

  Harriet Harman
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  • Thought

• I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

  

  Halsey
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• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Family
  • Father

• If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Principles

• In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

  

  D.A. Wallach
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• The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.

  

  Matthew Pearl
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• Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

  

  John C. Maxwell
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• My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.

  

  Mario Van Peebles
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  • Mother

• The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Encouraging

• If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

  

  William Golding
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