William Faulkner Quotes
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
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Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
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It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
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By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
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If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.
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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
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Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?
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Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
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Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.
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A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.
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No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?
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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
