Beau Willimon Quotes
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.Beau Willimon
Quotes to Explore
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We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.
La'Porsha Renae -
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon -
When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
Vince Staples -
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
Octavia E. Butler -
I'm an actress, not a pinup.
Francesca Annis -
No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
Fisher Stevens
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
Tadanobu Asano -
I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
Dan Gilbert -
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
Dani Shapiro
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
Taran Killam -
When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
Karen Salmansohn -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
Vera Wang -
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
Rachel Stevens -
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz
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In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
Steve Martin -
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas -
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
Antonio Gala -
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
Walter Hill -
So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.
J. H. Wyman -
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
Beau Willimon