William Fleming Quotes
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.
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The simplest answer is to act.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
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I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
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My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.
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Passion is born of vague hopes.
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Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is connected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I’m always surprised when somebody funny is not musical.
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We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
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Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
