Bill Parcells Quotes

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

Bill Parcells

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• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

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• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

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• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  

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• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

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• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

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• Every villain needs her story told.

  

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• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

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• I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

  

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• When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

  

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• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  

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• Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

  

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• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

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• I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

  

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• To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

  

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• I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

  

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• Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

  

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• When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.

  

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• Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.

  

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• I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

  

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• Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

  

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• I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Air