William H. Gass Quotes
I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.
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The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.
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Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.
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Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
