William Morris Quotes
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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I am tone deaf.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.
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When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.
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He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
