William J. Mann Quotes
The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.
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'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'
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A moment guess'd - then back behind the Fold Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll'd Which, for the Pastime of Eternity, He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’
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Humanity lives in its fiction.
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
