Billy West Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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Owning a great golf course gives you great power.
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Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
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I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
