William A. Clark Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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You give before you get.
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I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.
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Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.
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My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.
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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
