William Goyen Quotes
For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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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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In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.
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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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I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.
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Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.
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Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
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For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.
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For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.
