Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes
We may think we are smarter than all other animals, but our destructive acts to nature and other animals do not validate this.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
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To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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We may think we are smarter than all other animals, but our destructive acts to nature and other animals do not validate this.
