Bill Courtney Quotes
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
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I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
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I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Let them eat cake.
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All the angels in the whole universe care about you; and if God wants to dispatch them all, He can do it.
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We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.
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The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.
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The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but all my life you've been the weirdest person I've ever met. That doesn't make you not a real person. In fact, it makes you pretty goddamn specific.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
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We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
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Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.
