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 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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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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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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My heart is with Hillary Clinton.
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From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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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.
