Billy Wilder Quotes
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
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In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.
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We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
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One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
