Bill Paxton Quotes
It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'
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I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.
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People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.
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It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.
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When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.
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It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.