William Golding Quotes
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.
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If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.
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Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
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My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
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In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.
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One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
