William M. Daley (Bill Daley) Quotes
You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
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Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
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What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
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You can use all the flowery words in the dictionary, but sooner or later, you have to let people know where you stand.
