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William Dampier Quotes

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

William Dampier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: english
Birth: July 10, 1908 - September 11, 1908

Topics

Success Good World Name Judge Will

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Live People World Details Musicians

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

Together Mom You Country Know True

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Truth Day People Night Go Moral

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

Comfortable My Own More Through Own

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

Bridge Looks Become Recording Like

Sky Harbor may be a city airport, but it's an Arizona vital resource used by citizens all over the state, and our economy is dependent on its success.

Success Sky City Airport Economy

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

Man Mistake Me Never Same Twice

For the most part, romance is written in third person, and it's written in multiple points of view, so you're in the hero's head, and you're in the heroine's head. I've always said that I'm more of a narrator than a creator.

Story End Go Want Way Take

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Music Culture Joy Become Over Years

I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.

Food Eating Try Eat Organic Been

I do try to stay open and stay as present as you can be.

Present You Try Open Stay

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

Time Government Nation Over Single

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