William T. Vollmann Quotes

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.

William T. Vollmann

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The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.

Jeremy Grantham

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I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

John Mahoney

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I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

Robert H. Schuller

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I'm a huge Lionel Richie fan, and sometimes we actually listen to Lionel Richie on the bus.

Matthew Ramsey

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In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Michael Imperioli

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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Toni Morrison

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Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

Mohsin Hamid

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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Joseph Roux

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I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Johnny Winter

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The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth.

DMX

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Think about the deflections. The offense can't score every play. They're just trying to get a good shot. If I can deflect a pass, even if it doesn't cause a turnover, it will throw their timing off half-a-second. That half-a-second might mess up their shot.

Draymond Green

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I used to be a hairdresser.

Dee Dee Ramone

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