William A. Connelly Quotes
It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
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I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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I know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl, what Giants pride and that defense is really about.
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My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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The future peopling of Mars is much more than a scientific endeavor. It is a step of historic and spiritual importance for the human race.
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My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.
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I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
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It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.
