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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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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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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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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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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That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.
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A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.
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Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.
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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.
