William Stafford Quotes
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
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I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.
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It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.
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I went to multiple doctors to make sure that I'm taking the right anti-depression medication and make sure that my blood pressure's okay. I found out that my blood pressure wasn't okay and that I had a fatty liver. All these health risks were coming up.
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It's okay to dream big.
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I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
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Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.
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I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.
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If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.
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Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.
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I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.
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For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
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I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.
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We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected.
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I didn't feel like I belonged with my mom. And I didn't feel like I belonged with my dad. Since they were separated, I kind of felt like I didn't belong anywhere. So my grandparents gave me that stability, gave me the feeling like I had something and I came from some place.
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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
