William Romaine Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.
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For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
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In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
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We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.
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We’ve been gratified to date by the response of large U.S. telecommunications providers to our trying to raise awareness on this issue.
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I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in that after a while. I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked.
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The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
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I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.
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My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.
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When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. It was in upstate New York where we had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.
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I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
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God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.
