Bill Withers Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.
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We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or another record being influential to their lives in one way or another. It's always nice to hear that stuff.
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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.
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I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together.
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She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jack." "Yes?" "I. . ." she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words. It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.
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I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.
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Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.
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Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
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He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.
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When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
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It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
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Even a true artist does not always produce art.
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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
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If you're always telling people why you can't do something, if you parse everything and nitpick, I've got news for you: You're not going anywhere. If you want to make it in this world, learn to say, "sure, no problem." Practice. It's good for you. When is the last time you went on a limb trusting your gut feeling?
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The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
