William Faulkner Quotes
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I think one day I have to be in a fat suit.'
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It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other.
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I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.
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Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.
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Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
