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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If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.
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I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.
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What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the windy recrements of the day like those old exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.
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If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
