William Faulkner Quotes
It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.
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I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
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It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
