William Wharton Quotes
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
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Your Dollar is your only Word,The wrath of it your only fear.You build it altars tall enoughTo make you see, but your are blind;You cannot leave it long enoughTo look before you or behind.
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It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
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I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.
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There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
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My own personal tweets are very limited. I think I have, like, 68 followers on my personal Twitter.
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One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
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I have aging as a disease.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
