William T. Vollmann Quotes

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.

William T. Vollmann

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When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get. There are a certain amount of folks who admire me, there are a certain amount of folks who don't, and I'm not going to try and change their mind. Nothing I can do will change their mind anyway, because they already have a good gauge of who I am as a person.

John Cena

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People always want to know what I fed my kids. I gave them real food, not frozen pizza.

Maye Musk

FoodPizzaPeopleKnowWantFrozen

I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

John Sununu

ChangeTimeBecauseRunningSenator

The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

Amanda Foreman

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The implications of Americans devoting their lives to fast food are more profound than the fact that our kids aren't eating well. There are real repercussions that we need to know about and think about.

Ruth Reichl

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In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.

Rudy Giuliani

PeopleIdeasThoughtsAdviceYou

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

Michelle Kwan

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The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

ActionSometimesOthersEuropeHead

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Juan Cole

SpeakReadUrduPersianQuiteToo

I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.

Jonathan Van Ness

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I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.

Jon Oringer

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When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

Chick Corea

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