William P. Young Quotes
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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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.
Nancy Johnson
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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.
Gary Weiss
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
Viktor Orban
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I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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I AM NOTHING.Nothing but a pale shape.
Patrick Modiano
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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.
Samuel Beckett
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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.
Isaac Barrow
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In this world you either read or write, and writers write out of contempt for their colleagues, out of a desire to have something good to read once in a while.
Umberto Eco
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
Alfred North Whitehead
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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.
Sam Harris
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I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.
Mike Quade
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The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
Quiara Alegria Hudes
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You're also finding out something as you read vitally important for making your way in the world. And it's this: The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.
Neil Gaiman
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I am astounded at my age with a 20-year-old daughter to discover that kids of her generation don't want to watch black and white movies. I understand that they gave up on silent films, but black and white? So, now movies have to be taught in academia because people don't know how to watch them, they don't know how to appreciate them.
Gary Giddins
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I am especially fond of you.
William P. Young
