Taliesin Quotes
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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Whether you think we belong in Iraq or not, we can't tune it out; we have to remain mindful of the terrible losses that individual soldiers are suffering in our name.
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Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
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An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
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I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
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Even random differences in pay lead to the backward inference of differences in skill and hence to the development of unequal influence. It's an element of personal and office dynamics that can't be ignored.
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It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.
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Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.
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I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.
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Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
