Niall Williams Quotes
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
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It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.
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Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.
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I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.
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The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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It's a blindness thing, faith.
