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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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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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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When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.
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Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
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Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
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Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.
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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
