William Styron Quotes

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

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• Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
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  • Help

• Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Smile
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  • Nasty

• Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • America
  • Opportunities

• My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Me
  • Understand

• Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.

  

  Talcott Parsons

• Deal-making is an ability you're born with. It's in the genes.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Ability
  • Genes
  • Deal-Making

• I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Painting

• We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Job
  • Girl

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• Why this would happen to us? I don't know. We've had three tough losses and a total of five tough losses. I wouldn't want a different group to coach. These are the guys I like. It's up to us, and we're going to see what's going to happen down the road.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
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  • Why

• I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Country
  • America
  • I Loved You

• I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

  

  Angela Davis
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  • Individual
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• And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Children
  • Money
  • Happy

• The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  

  Albert Venn Dicey
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  • English

• Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
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  • Ignorance
  • Equal

• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Business
  • America
  • Jobs

• Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Art
  • Wise

• I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
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  • Job

• When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

  

  William Styron
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  • Firsts
  • Profession