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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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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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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Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah
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Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.
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One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.
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For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.
