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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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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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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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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We had defensive lapses in the second half, only not as many. It's a will. You have to want to do it. It's sticking to the principles we practice every day. Sometimes if the team comes out and does the very things you're forcing them to do and they do well, you have to give them credit.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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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.
