William Mountford Quotes

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

William Mountford

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• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

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• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

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• I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

  

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• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

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• To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

  

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• I admire Governor Blagojevich's unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.

  

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• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  

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• Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

  

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• I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

  

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• I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

  

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• I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

  

  Kanye West
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• 'I'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
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• The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the 'conventions' of the symbolic system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
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• If there be anything in a remark often to be met with, namely that there is, in the genius of the people of this country, a peculiar aptitude for mechanic improvements, it would operate as a forcible reason for giving opportunities to the exercise of that species of talent, by the propagation of manufactures.

  

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• I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

  

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• When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

  

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• Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

  

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• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

  

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• What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.

  

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• Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

  

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• To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

  

  William Mountford
  • Giving
  • Sometimes
  • Communication