Bill Pullman Quotes
I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.
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What you see is what you get. I don't change who I am from public to private.
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I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.
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Sometimes people can be offensive and not even realize it.
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The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.
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Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.
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I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
