William Golding Quotes
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children - therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.
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I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.
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I really, really love what I do, and there's nothing I love more than getting on stage and playing for an audience or working on a part, getting in front of the camera, and meeting all the cool people I get to meet, and going all the cool places I get to go.
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I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
