Bill Toomey Quotes
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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There is no one true church.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The course of development
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To me, anything goes. But that's me.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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Rubberband man, wide as the teleband9 on my right, .45 in my otha hand
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.
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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
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Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.
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Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.
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One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
