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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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I'm not a big chicken or meat eater, but sometimes I'll eat it if it's locally raised. The family dinner will be stir-fry, or we'll roll our own sushi with brown rice, spinach, salmon, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and seaweed. The kids love it!
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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.
