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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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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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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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
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Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.
