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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I can't die but once.
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Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
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Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
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I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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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.
