William Morris Quotes
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.
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He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
