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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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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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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I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.
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You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind.
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Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.
