Will Tuttle Quotes
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
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I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'
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Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'
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The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.
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I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.
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The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.
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I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?
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I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!
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Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
