William H. Gass Quotes
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
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Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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He was short on the one attribute certain to meet the immediate respect of the rich - i.e. being rich - and must therefore obtrude deterrents against being buggered about.
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.