William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
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I had always regarded language as more a question of utility than identity. Therefore, I promptly noted that all the (EU) meetings should be conducted in English and French. My older colleagues laughed. Later I understood why. On the second day of the Finnish presidency (of the EU) a German delegation refused to participate in an informal ministerial meeting because no German interpretation had been arranged.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
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Pain is the touchstone of all growth
