William Hall Quotes
I remember the 1950s. It seemed as if prosperity was the be all and end all. The idea was that if you had enough material goods, everything would be all right.
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles
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Every idea has its time.
Vicente Fox
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
Usher
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
J. Paul Getty
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
Mackenzie Astin
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
Raha Moharrak
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
W. G. Sebald
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
Vince Gilligan
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
Aaron Lazar
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The idea was always to be an actor.
Caitriona Balfe
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
Aaron Neville
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
Yves Behar
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
Damien Hirst
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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
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In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental capitalism at work: While they abhorred the idea of being a wage slave, the young men of Silicon Valley were not trying to tear down the capitalist system. They were trying to become its new masters.
Katherine Losse
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Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
Paul Keating
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I remember the 1950s. It seemed as if prosperity was the be all and end all. The idea was that if you had enough material goods, everything would be all right.
William Hall