William R. Ferris Quotes
The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?
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And who (in time) knows whither we may ventThe treasure of our tongue? To what strange shoresThis gain of our best glory shall be sentT' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?What worlds in the yet unformed OccidentMay come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
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Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.
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I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.
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Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
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I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we should at least show that gratitude to them, you know what I'm saying?
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I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.
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When I hear about these terrorist ideologies, they are completely foreign and strange to me. I mean, to me, it's, like, antithetical.
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I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.
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If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
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There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
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We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.
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The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.
