William Faulkner Quotes
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
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Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
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Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
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That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.
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I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.
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I am a living soap opera.
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
