Arthur L. Williams, Jr. Quotes
I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
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People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
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I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.
