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 problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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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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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
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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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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.
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I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
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What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fully known and fully loved. God wants this so much that He has promised to knock down every obstacle in the way, enduring even His own death, to be with us, to consummate this love.
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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.
