William Weld Quotes
Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection from death. Paradoxically, those who embark on the biblical witness constantly risk death - through execution, exile, imprisonment, persecution, defamation, or harassment - at the behest of the rulers of this age. Yet those who do not resist the rulers of the present darkness are consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness. That, of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Everything the kid does is funny. I think he tunes his life to being funny.
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I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable. I'm marginally there in my native life. I can do as much as I can, but I'm always German, too, you know, and I'm always a mother. That's my first identity, but I'm always a writer, too.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.
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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
