William Howard Taft Quotes
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I love bayou life.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
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It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
