Walter E. Williams Quotes
But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin.
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The meaning of socialism is that life is dominated not by the contrast of rich and poor but by rank as determined by achievement and ability. That is our kind of freedom: freedom from the economic capriciousness of the individual.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I'm slow to make a decision. I need to think things over for a long time, to weigh the pros and cons, to look at issues 10, 20, or 30 times. But when that's done, I'm quick to act.
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I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times in a way that's completely consistent with the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.
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But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?
