Wilson Follett Quotes
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.
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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
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All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
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Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.
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Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.
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We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.
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Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
