Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
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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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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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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 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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It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.
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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain - All, all the stretch of these great green states - And make America again!
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself.
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We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
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Lies sleep in minds. Truths sleep in souls.
