William J Doherty Quotes
If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Something had been given back to him. And because she had been a part of it, there was something between them now. A bond of loss, if loss could bind.
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There were definitely lyrics and they were very meaningful. I think.
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The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").
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My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
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If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
