Dean Williams Quotes
Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.
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I feel things more deeply... anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life... Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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I don't know. I'm really really really nervous.
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
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This will be a defining moment -- President Bush has to pick between what mainstream America wants and what the radical right demands. He can make good on his promises to unite the country by reaching out across party lines to find a consensus nominee who'll respect privacy rights, value women's freedom and defend constitutional traditions.
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But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
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Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Position yourself to succeed first by building good relationships with the right people; and then put your effort and expertise behind that!
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Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
