William Stafford Quotes
And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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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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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other - and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.
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Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.
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And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.
