William Pollard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I often reread books I have written.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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I come from a poor family.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
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It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
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Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.
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A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.
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In sport, you just have to take what you can get.
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Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement
