William Golding Quotes
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
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I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
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To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
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The status quo sucks.
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I like anything that's edible.
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Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
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For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
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I love the excesses of beauty, there is never enough sunlight in the world I will live in, never enough room for love.
