Bill Dixon Quotes
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.
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In my team, I don't want selfish players. I prefer to lose a game than have selfish players. I don't want that in my club. Never.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.
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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
