William Deresiewicz Quotes
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Music is about the performance.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
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I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.
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If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.
