Bert Williams Quotes
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
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I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
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The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it.
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So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
