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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A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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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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I was married for four years, then success happened.
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Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
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Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
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I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.
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Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.
