Raymond Williams Quotes
The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
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It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
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I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
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The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.
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None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.
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People say a lot of things about LeBron, but he just keeps having a good mentality and grinding. That's what I try to do, proving people wrong by what I do on the court.
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As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
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You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.
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I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.
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I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.
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I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.
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It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.
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The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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Life is a question without a standard answer.
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What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure.
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The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.
