William Hall Quotes
One thing you notice is that you want to walk in the door in the morning. So it's a nice job.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.
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I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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I never fall in love.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
Garry Kasparov
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
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Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.
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Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.
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... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.
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One thing you notice is that you want to walk in the door in the morning. So it's a nice job.
