William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.
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I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
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I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
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When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
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In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.
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But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
