William Mulholland Quotes

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Ability

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Heart

• The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Question
  • Alone
  • Risk

• I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Friends
  • Star
  • Laugh

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Worse

• There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• We need to ensure that our voice is heard in the process because obviously we do have different views and we can't always accept fait d' accompli positions when they clearly don't reflect the view of our constituents.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Different
  • Voice
  • Process

• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Fighting
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Beginning
  • Wise

• We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen. It's all a matter of confidence and we have that now. We can still make the playoffs, it's all up to us.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Confidence

• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Years
  • President

• That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• The President Barack Obama said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Country
  • Business
  • President

• There are a lot of African-Americans in that region of the country. We pay particular attention to these communities because historically aid doesn't get into those communities right away.

  

  John Whiting
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Particular

• Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

  

  Norman Foster
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Sharing

• Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

  

  Will Durant
  • Armies
  • Vegetarian Foods

• If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

  

  William Mulholland
  • Humans
  • Judgment
  • Errors