William Faulkner Quotes
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.
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You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
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Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said I was crazy.
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With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.
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I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.
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'Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day. I saw a lot of theater while I was there.
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In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.
Colson Whitehead -
I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'
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Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
