William Greider Quotes
Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
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I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.
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I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.
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All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase- 'I love you.' (From: The Offshore Pirate)
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Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
