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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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
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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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Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them.
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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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I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.
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Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.
