William Parrish Quotes
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
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We'd like to see Patrick continue to make the real good plays he's made and eliminate the bad ones, ... We need to be efficient.
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You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
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Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
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I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
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Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
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I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
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Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.
