William Ickes Quotes
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
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A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
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I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.
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To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
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If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.
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The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
