William Rotsler Quotes
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.
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The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
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The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
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There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
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People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loop-holes.
