William T. Vollmann Quotes

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

William T. Vollmann

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GoodMeGoPageSometimesOld

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

John C. Mather

PeopleLearnKnowMoreOpenShow

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

John Gourley

MusicParentsMeGenerationWantUp

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

Melvyn Bragg

LoveWritingArtsMakingI Love

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Andre Malraux

BusinessNothingMoreServeCommand

You can always learn when you lose.

Stan Wawrinka

LearnYouLoseAlways

Insofar as Pancasila is concerned, I am only its formulator: a formulator of those feelings which have been present silently in the heart of the Indonesian people.

Sukarno

HeartI AmPeoplePresentFeelings

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

Roger Ebert

PoliticsYouElectionKnowOldWell

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

WorldFirstTwoNobilityMayLast

My entire adult life has been in military. That's a big part of my life and a big part of why I am the person with the experience to be the United States senator.

Jon Keyser

LifeExperienceI AmMy LifePerson

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Augustus Hare

SayingThingsBeingAmbitiousGrand

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

Peter Mandelson

WorldSayingGlobalizationGrowing

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

Paul Thomas Anderson

FunNowWayMissUsedFilm

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