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.William Faulkner
Quotes to Explore
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian -
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
Zubin Mehta -
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.
Cameron Crowe -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
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.
Fay Weldon -
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.
Jack McDevitt
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke -
Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
Iris DeMent -
God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
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.
Malcolm de Chazal -
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
Abby Wambach -
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.
Fareed Zakaria
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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.
Lake Bell -
My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
Sam Heughan -
Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian -
Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
Oprah Winfrey -
Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
Zaha Hadid
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I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.
Brian Aldiss -
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.
Anthony Davis -
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.
William Faulkner