William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
Karen Joy Fowler
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
Zane Grey
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
K. Flay
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
Sai Baba
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
Lake Bell
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
Malcolm Boyd
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
Laura Trott
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Kapil Dev
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
Kate Winslet
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God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
Robert H. Schuller
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Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.
Albert Mohler
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
S. J. Rozan
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If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
William Griffith Wilson