William Poundstone Quotes
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now connected together.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.
