William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able to defend the tilt of an administration's policy as if it were his own. If not, he should make room for those who can.
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During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.
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In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.
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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
