William Faulkner Quotes
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
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I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
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So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.
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I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.
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The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.
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We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.
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One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.
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Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.
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You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
