William Faulkner Quotes
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
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What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
