Bill Owens Quotes
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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I'll fucking beat the fuck out of you.
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You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
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Being what we are, human beings, the natural tendency is that when everybody brags about you, they write good things, you kind of read about it and you back off a little bit. We couldn't play with them last time.
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All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
