William P. Young Quotes
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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To me, my business is my life.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
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I AM NOTHING.Nothing but a pale shape.
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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
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What Mathematicians Chiefly consider in Motion is the Mode of Lation or Manner of bearing, and the Quantity of the motive Force. ...But because the Quantity of motive Force cannot be known without Time, we must say something concerning its Nature.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil.
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We had a bubble in housing.
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I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.
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I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.
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I am especially fond of you.
