Joe Williams Quotes
People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.
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I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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I have no desire to carry a movie.
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People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
