William Faulkner Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, 'OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?'
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.
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I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.
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I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.
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I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.
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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
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I like anything Jennifer Lawrence is in. She's so beautiful.
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It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
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As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.
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Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
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I wonder if there is anything to discover.
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I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.
Gail Devers -
You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.
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I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.
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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
