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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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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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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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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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
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How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?
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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.
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I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
