William Wharton Quotes
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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I love dressing up.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
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I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
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If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I’m not dressed up or I’m not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I’m talking down to them.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I had been tracked from grades 1 through 12 in an accelerated program in the public school system in Memphis and had done well in math and science classes. When I was getting ready for college, my guidance counselors suggested I look into engineering.
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It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most important countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union. I think it is a must at this point to talk about cooperation instead of the rancor and hatred and competition between nations.
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There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
