William Stafford Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
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If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.
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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
