William E. Conway, Jr. Quotes

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

William E. Conway, Jr.

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You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

John Corigliano

GreatWinThinkAwardYouBecome

Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.

Meghan Daum

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I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.

Robert Jeffress

GoodPeopleThinkMoralChristianity

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

Robert Nozick

JobWrinklesThinkYouNewTry

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

Rutina Wesley

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I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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I was a business major, but the more I played music and the more I got into songwriting, I realized this is what I loved, but I kept asking myself, 'Is this what I'm supposed to do - move to Nashville?'

Cole Swindell

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A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

Branford Marsalis

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Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Bobby Seale

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A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Bruce Rauner

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I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

Portia Doubleday

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I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.

Peter Jackson

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