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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I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.
