William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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I take my work seriously.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
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I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.
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For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
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What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.
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The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
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In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
