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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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.
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I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.
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That was the most terrible thing that a woman could to a decent man: look vulnerable and ask him for mercy. If he refused her he'd be denying all his instincts as a provider and protector.
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The hell with the aging process. It happens to everyone - you just keep your mind active, you keep physically active.
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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.
