William Faulkner Quotes
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
