William Faulkner Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
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I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
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For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
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Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis.
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Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
