William Weld Quotes
We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly.

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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
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Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.
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A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
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In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
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We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly.