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William S. Paley Quotes

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: September 28, 1901 - October 26, 1990

Topics

Power History Engage Vices Who

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

Joan Miro

Music Silence I Am Looking Think

The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.

John Lithgow

Learning Time Long Career Chapter

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

Angela Ahrendts

Relationship Building Think Employees

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

Trey Gowdy

Trail Never Question South Carolina

Whenever I'm with my boys, we go out together, and not always to a certain party or anything. It's just always a lot of laughs.

Rob Gronkowski

Together Party Go Out Anything Just

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Robyn

Music Myself I Am Think Picture

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

Life My Life Never Terrible Been

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Michael Novak

Character Literature Years Last Pope

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

Jay Griffiths

People Me Wilderness Holiday White

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

Joseph Jarman

Music Contact Inspired Something Had

There's always that moment on every movie where you just go, 'Okay, this is that moment. I'm about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.'

Johnny Depp

Moment Face You Fall Go Okay

I have little bones.

Dolly Parton

Little Bones