William Golding Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
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Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
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You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.
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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
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This office is not going to make that decision about rescheduling this game.
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How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
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There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.
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...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
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We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.
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Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
