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I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!
Author:
Fritz Zwicky
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The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
Author:
David Zucker
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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
Author:
John Zorn
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I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.
Author:
Rob Zombie
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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Author:
Emile Zola
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Author:
Emile Zola
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Author:
Emile Zola
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Communism will win.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Author:
Howard Zinn
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.
Author:
Khaleda Zia
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Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.
Author:
Khaleda Zia
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Author:
Xun Zi
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Author:
Dogen Zenji
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And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
Author:
Jamie Zawinski
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
Author:
Panayiotis Zavos
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There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.
Author:
Panayiotis Zavos
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If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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We will not know unless we begin.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
Author:
Darryl Zanuck
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No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
Author:
Viktor Yushchenko
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History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.
Author:
Rick Yune
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
Author:
Cao Yu
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I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
Author:
Cole Younger
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The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.
Author:
Cole Younger
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Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.
Author:
Cole Younger
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
Author:
Margaret Young
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
Author:
La Young
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Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.
Author:
Don Young
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If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.
Author:
Don Young
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You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.
Author:
Don Young
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Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Author:
Brigham Young
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We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
Author:
Michael York
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I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.
Author:
Michael York
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Author:
Paramahansa Yogananda
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Author:
Paramahansa Yogananda
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As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.
Author:
Wu Yi
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Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.
Author:
Lee Yew
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I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
Author:
Tim Yeo
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Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.
Author:
Isaac Yeffet
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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
Author:
William Yeats
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
Author:
William Yeats
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What's meant to be will always find a way.
Author:
Trisha Yearwood
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Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.
Author:
Peter Yarrow
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
Author:
Viktor Yanukovych
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I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.
Author:
Martin Yan
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Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Author:
Martin Yan
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Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.
Author:
Martin Yan
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And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory.
Author:
Isoroku Yamamoto
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I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
Author:
Lalu Yadav
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Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.
Author:
Lalu Yadav
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When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Author:
Deng Xiaoping
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Author:
Xenophon
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
Author:
Xenophon
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Author:
Xenophanes
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It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.
Author:
Albert Wynn
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I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.
Author:
Albert Wynn
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I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
Author:
John Wycliffe
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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
Author:
William Wycherley
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I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.
Author:
Joe Wurzelbacher
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Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.
Author:
David Wu
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The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
Author:
Will Wright
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I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.
Author:
Wilbur Wright
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Author:
Orville Wright
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
Author:
Gary Wright
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Author:
Frank Wright
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Author:
Frank Wright
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
Author:
Francis Wright
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Author:
Francis Wright
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Author:
Frances Wright
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Author:
Frances Wright
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
Author:
Christopher Wren
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As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
Author:
Fay Wray
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It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same.
Author:
John Wozniak
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Write a page a day. It will add up.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
Author:
David Wooster
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As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
Author:
James Woolsey
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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
Author:
John Woolman
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When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.
Author:
Leonard Woolley
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Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.
Author:
Frank Woolley
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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In time the truth will come out, I will be cleared.
Author:
Louise Woodward
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I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be.
Author:
Tiger Woods
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It will always be the ball and me.
Author:
Tiger Woods
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Jeane Dixon tells us that May and June are going to be pretty bad. June may be worse than May. But everything will turn out to be fine and to be of stout heart and all that.
Author:
Rose Woods
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It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.
Author:
Judy Woodruff
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Author:
John Wooden
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
Author:
John Wooden
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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
Author:
George Woodberry
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I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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When I get married it will be for keeps.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
Author:
Ed Wood
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
Author:
Ed Wood
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It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.
Author:
Bobby Womack
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I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
Author:
Bobby Womack
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.
Author:
Stephen Wolfram
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Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
Author:
James Wolfe
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You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.
Author:
Scott Wolf
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Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Author:
Frank Wolf
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The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
Author:
Dick Wolf
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I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.
Author:
Girma Woldegiorgis
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
Author:
P. Wodehouse
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The world is independent of my will.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.
Author:
Frederick Wiseman
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I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
Author:
Henry Wise
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At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.
Author:
Norman Wisdom
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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Author:
Niklaus Wirth
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Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
Author:
Niklaus Wirth
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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I think the blues will always be around. People need it.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
Author:
Edgar Winter
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I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
Author:
Alex Winter
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There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
Author:
Garry Winogrand
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The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.
Author:
Tom Winnifrith
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If you make compelling television, they will come.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
Author:
William Wilson
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We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.
Author:
William Wilson
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We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
Author:
William Wilson
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As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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The housing market will get worse before it gets better.
Author:
James Wilson
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
Author:
James Wilson
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There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.
Author:
James Wilson
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
Author:
Flip Wilson
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Author:
Edmund Wilson
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
Author:
E. Wilson
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
Author:
E. Wilson
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
Author:
E. Wilson
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
Author:
E. Wilson
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Author:
E. Wilson
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I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.
Author:
Dennis Wilson
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There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love.
Author:
Dennis Wilson
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No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.
Author:
William Wills
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They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.
Author:
William Wills
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The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.
Author:
William Wills
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I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.
Author:
Chill Wills
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
Author:
Ellen Willis
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.
Author:
Kevin Williamson
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Repression will provoke rebellion.
Author:
Hugh Williamson
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A lot of faith is placed upon the airline itself. The FAA has never and will never have enough resources to completely monitor the airlines.
Author:
Wayne Williams
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Author:
Walter Williams
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
Author:
Walter Williams
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If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Author:
Tad Williams
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We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.
Author:
Shirley Williams
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No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.
Author:
Roy Williams
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What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.
Author:
Roy Williams
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Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.
Author:
Roberta Williams
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I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
Author:
Roberta Williams
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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
Author:
Raymond Williams
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If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
Author:
Paul Williams
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As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.
Author:
Montel Williams
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If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.
Author:
Montel Williams
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I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
Author:
Montel Williams
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I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.
Author:
Montel Williams
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What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
Author:
Larry Williams
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I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.
Author:
Jayson Williams
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I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
Author:
Edward Williams
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In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
Author:
Dar Williams
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The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
Author:
Bill Williams
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People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
Author:
Bern Williams
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We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.
Author:
Prince William
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In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.
Author:
Emma Willard
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
Author:
George Will
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.
Author:
George Will
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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
Author:
George Will
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Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
Author:
George Will
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If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.
Author:
Tom Wilkinson
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Author:
Wendell Wilkie
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The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
Author:
Kaiser Wilhelm
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I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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The first black president will be a politician who is black.
Author:
Doug Wilder
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They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.
Author:
Kim Wilde
