Arthur L. Williams, Jr. Quotes
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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Africa is the future.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
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[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.
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I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do. Instead of asking students to 'declare their major' we should ask students to 'list what they will do anything to avoid.' It just makes a lot more sense.
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We're really reducing the potential inflow, not cutting it off.
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Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.
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There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
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You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.
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There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.
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My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode on which the poem is based in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
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It's not how much you make, it's how much you save.
