William Carlos Williams Quotes
One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
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If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
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Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.
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The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
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I love eyeshadow, blushers, and eyelashes with lots of black liquid eyeliner.
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Give light and people will find the way.
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Election losses are always an inkblot test for partisans. If a candidate's defeat has no clear and obvious cause, if the data points are all over the map, it is easy for those on the sidelines to claim, 'Candidate X would have won if only he or she had been more like... me.'
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I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
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I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
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That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
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A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
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Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
