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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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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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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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
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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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Knowledge is encoded in models. Models are synthetic sets of rules, and pictures, and algorithms providing us with useful representations of the world of our perceptions and of their patterns.
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No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.
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I believe this is a moment of truth for our country, a time when people of all parties and persuasions should stand together and denounce Trump's campaign. That includes our governor here in Maryland.
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I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
