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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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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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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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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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.
