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.
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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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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.
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The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
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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.
