Kurt Bills Quotes
The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
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The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
