William Golding Quotes
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.
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The best protection against recidivism is a job.
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...there won’t be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.
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Well, I think we're getting what we want, we're getting the information that's in it and getting the reasons why there's a big difference between the attorney general and the FBI director and that's the main thrust of our hearing and everything else to find out why there's this big difference and so the committee knows, the Congress knows and the American people know.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.
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No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.
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I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.
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Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.
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I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.
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He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.
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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
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I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.
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The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
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They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
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A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
