William Weaks Morris (Willie Morris) Quotes
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is.
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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.
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I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.
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Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
