William Stafford Quotes
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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There is more to life than show business.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Language can do what it can’t say.
