William C. Hannon Quotes
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?
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Am I not correct in saying that Iran has never voiced that they are developing a nuclear weapon, nor do they have any intention of using a nuclear weapon against the United States? That's never actually been voiced. I don't know where that has come from, but it hasn't been from Iran.
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.
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When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
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What I want most, is to know what You hear in the silence between us.
