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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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'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 good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist - all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.
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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?
