William H. Gass Quotes
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
Quotes to Explore
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.
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I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.
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We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.
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My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
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I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
