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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Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
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All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
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'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically.
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Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.… Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism-and I say it with such gusto-capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.
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The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.
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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.
