Bill Moyers Quotes
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
