Bill Pullman Quotes

I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.

Bill Pullman

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• I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

  

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• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
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• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

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• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

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• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

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• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
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• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
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• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Democracy
  • End
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• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Athlete

• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

  Yuna
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• I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.

  

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  • Time
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  • Kids

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

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  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

  

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  • Conscience
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• I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

  

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• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

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• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

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• Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

  

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• Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

  

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• Say what we will, death is the best thing nature has found to please everyone. With each of us, everything vanishes, everything stops forever. What an advantage, what an abuse! Without the least effort on our part, we own the universe, we drag it into our own disappearance. No doubt about it, dying is immoral…

  

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  • Nature
  • Death
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• You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

  

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  • People
  • Free
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• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
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• I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Death
  • Dad