William Faulkner Quotes
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
Quotes to Explore
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
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By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.
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There are times when the only people you spend time with are the people in your team. That's hard, because I think, 'I'm a girl. I want to hang out with other girls. I just want to be a normal young woman.'
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I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
