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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Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.
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If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.
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Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.
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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.
