Billy Donovan Quotes
The one thing you've got to do with reading is it's something you've got to do every day. Anything you want to do in life, you've got to practice every day.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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I want to be seen as a classic model.
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The one thing you've got to do with reading is it's something you've got to do every day. Anything you want to do in life, you've got to practice every day.
