Will Youmans Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.
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With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
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I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
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I'm deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superior in this country, in some sense, that if you sit at a restaurant, they're served before a Kenyan is served. If you go through customs, a white person is going to have an easier time going through customs.
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I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.
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Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,-And they never came back to me!
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We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.
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I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a strong community here so that artists don't feel pressure to move somewhere else to succeed.
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If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
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No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
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I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.
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I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
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My fans are truly my friends.
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I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.
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It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.
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Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."
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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
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Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.
