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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We have antiquated policies that were put in place in the 1970s that prohibit us from exporting our crude oil, yet we have allies around the globe asking the United States to provide them with a stable supply of energy.
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I go online, and I love watching heavy metal bands and guitar players play heavy metal versions of the 'Zelda' theme, and people do all the 'Zelda' music, which is one of my favorite soundtracks.
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For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part-by fitting our civilization to the mountain.
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An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
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Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.
