Arthur L. Williams, Jr. Quotes
A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.
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A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.
