William Irwin Thompson Quotes
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
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Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
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the urgent crowds out the essential.
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I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
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A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
