William Faulkner Quotes
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.
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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
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It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
