William Stafford Quotes
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.
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I worked as a liaison with some high-level government officials.
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I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.
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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
