Joe Williams Quotes
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
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I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.
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Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.
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People learn from their mistakes and move forward.
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If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!
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Everybody has fights with their sister.
