William Standish Knowles Quotes
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
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I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
