William Golding Quotes
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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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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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You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
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Stop the traffic...let 'em through.
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Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
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If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
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I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.
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Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
