Cindy Williams Quotes
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.
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It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.
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The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.
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Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.
