Billy Sunday Quotes
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Quotes to Explore
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Heroes can be sweet.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'
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Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.
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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
