Will Davis Campbell Quotes
I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
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Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
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That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.
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I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Impatience and cutting corners: it’s the primate way. It got us down out of the trees and up to the top of the evolutionary heap as a species, which is a lot more like a slippery, mud-slick game of King of the Hill with stabbing encouraged than any kind of tidy Victorian great chain of being or ladder of creation.
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I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.
