Tad Williams Quotes
To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless-except the one we’re fighting now?
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
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If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
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Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.
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He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless-except the one we’re fighting now?
