William Goyen Quotes
For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.
