William Faulkner Quotes
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I look formidable.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.
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Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
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Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
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If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
