William Golding Quotes
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
Quotes to Explore
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
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As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.
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I would tell you that you looked really hot today when I saw you naked, but that probably wouldn't be appropriate, being as we're in bed together but not doing anything.
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From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
