William Hague Quotes
Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.
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By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures. (p. 25)
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Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
