William Sleator Quotes
Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
Quotes to Explore
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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Sports saved my life.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.
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The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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‘When I say 'mind,'’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’
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Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
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I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
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I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
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I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
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Substantial services growth is core to Boeing's strategy.
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To the outside world, I was pretty bad at everything my whole life. People didn't credit me for my musicianship.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
