William Faulkner Quotes
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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Always follow your own path.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.
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My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.
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I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.
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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
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I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and those continuing the process of building the country, to concentrate on that humanitarian, peace-building legacy.
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The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.
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Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
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Leaving his country for his country's sake.
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I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
