Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.
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I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.
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I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
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They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
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Here lies my wife:here let her lie!Now she's at rest, and so am I.
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I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.
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Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'
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I'm really considering getting into amateur wrestling and getting into more tournaments. I'm looking into going to do some Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. I'm looking into everything.
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Lies sleep in minds. Truths sleep in souls.
