William Stafford Quotes
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.
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I do not have very much office experience.
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
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I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.
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Creating stars in laboratories on the very planets you inhabit turns out to be a bad idea.
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You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
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Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
