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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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
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I was kind of always the underdog.
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I do think we are seeing the definition of what is a carrier changing. You can turn America-class amphibious assault ships into smaller, less expensive versions of carriers. You can equip surface ships like destroyers as well as submarines with not just missiles and torpedoes but drones than can do roles traditionally performed by carrier aircraft, like surveillance or even strike, such as finding and taking out opponents' missile batteries.
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Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you.
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Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.
