Orson Welles Quotes
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.
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Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.
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There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
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I’m an old woman, your mother’s an old woman, so I’ll be an old woman, and I’ll do what I please.
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My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
