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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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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Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.
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I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?
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When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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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.
