Tad Williams Quotes
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
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I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.
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People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.
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We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything.
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I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion-the two cannot live together.
