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William T. Vollmann Quotes

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.

William T. Vollmann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1959

Topics

Money People Society Poverty You

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

Yourself Talent Surround Yourself You

When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and dress up as a mermaid for the cover of his album 'Siren.' It was love at first sight.

Love Men Dress Blue Me Young

I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.

John Eisenhower

Children Believe Place Combat Should

When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.

Age Growing Up Year You Growing Up

For my hair, I like to use different leave-in moisturizing sprays.

Hair Different Like Use

The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.

Work People Problem Week Will Us

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

Support Youth Opportunities Help Us

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

Family Age Myself Fun Teen Baby

I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia.

Work Reform Willing Indonesia

I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.

Son Day Me You Want Anything

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

Work Feel Whole Layers Different

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

Myself Know Satan Well Somebody Use

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