Bill Moyers Quotes
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I feel very lucky.
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I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
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If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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My whole 'WWE' career has been rebuilding myself and finding the confidence that I once had. It's been one hell of a journey. There have been times I felt like the prodigal son because I left wrestling and abandoned this thing that I loved.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.
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The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
