William Golding Quotes
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
Quotes to Explore
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.
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... I can't work well under the conditions at Bell Labs. Walter and I are looking at a few questions relating to point-contact transistors, but Shockley keeps all the interesting problems for himself.
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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
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There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
