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 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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With all the problems we are having, I won't be afraid to tell leadership, 'You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.'
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Not as many people watch 'Doctor Who' as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It's a much larger culture, in the specific sense.
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Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.
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You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.
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It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
