William Shawcross Quotes
Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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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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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.
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After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.
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The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is made available to our people. In fact, free and candid discussion of vexing problems is the bedrock of democracy and it may be our surest safeguard for peace.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.
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Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
