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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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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'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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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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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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What Joe Wilson did is like a belch.
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
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I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.
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Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter.
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PowerPoint makes us stupid.
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Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.
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The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
