Bill Walton Quotes
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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We want to get young people excited about inventing so they'll be future inventors, and change the world.
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My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
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It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
