Armstrong Williams Quotes
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
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The best alpinists are the ones with the worst memories.
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It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
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When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.
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A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.
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Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
