Tad Williams Quotes
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
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I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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When we talk about inequality in America, the great health centers being able to care for people who don't have means is really important. If you combine the research missions of these academic institutions with great clinical care, you get better clinical outcomes.
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The problem is, and I'm just as guilty of this, a lot of people see their follower count increase and mistake that for friendships. It's great to have followers, especially if you want to sell albums, promote shows, or promote your friends, but you still need to get outside and talk to other human beings.
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From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
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Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.
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Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.
