William Hall Quotes
It's one of those places, when you want to go out and touch the American people, it comes to the top of the list
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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No man may make another free.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
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It's one of those places, when you want to go out and touch the American people, it comes to the top of the list
