William Boughton Quotes
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
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A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air'
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Everything does go in a circle.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.
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A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
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I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.
