William Poundstone Quotes
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.
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I'm a citizen of the world.
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Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls.
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I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
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I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.
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In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.
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Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
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Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
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Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
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We have a tendency to be in our heads’ … Dancing is about letting go of the mind [and] the ego and finding the power of the body.
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I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard.
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Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.
