Bill Kurtis Quotes
The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
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I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.
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I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.
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Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
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The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
