William Bernard Ziff, Jr. Quotes
In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.
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I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.
