Billy Wilder Quotes
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.
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God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART.
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If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.
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This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
