William Kittredge Quotes
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
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What are you waiting for in order to give up?
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Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
