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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I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
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I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.
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'The Offending Words and Images, in their natural and ordinary meaning, mean and were understood to mean that I, as the Prime Minister of Singapore and Chairman of GIC, am guilty of criminal misappropriation of the monies paid by Singaporeans to the CPF.'
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
