William H. Gass Quotes
I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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I went and worked for my dad after school. I'd show up late and stuff like that.
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Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."
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I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.
