William Hall Quotes

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

William Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 28, 1827 - August 27, 1904

Topics

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If I'm shopping at the Gap or Old Navy, I'm saying that I'm an ordinary person: I don't want to be seen; I don't want to stand out. That's a statement. If I'm wearing a leather jacket, there's something about me that's kind of a rebel. So everybody says something, whether they want to or not.

Jidenna

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If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

Jerry Weintraub

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There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

Jeffrey Tambor

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

John Wooden

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Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room.

Stephen Graham Jones

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When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.

Steve Alford

TimeMeGameYearsOutSenior

Sometimes I love looking super groomed, and sometimes I like to look super weird.

Suki Waterhouse

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I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

Tommy Caldwell

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash

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As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

Mike Mills

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I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.

Molly Antopol

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I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

Louise Mensch

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