William P. Young Quotes
If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
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Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.
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That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.
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Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
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If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
