Slim Whitman (Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.) Quotes
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'
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Good dreams are better than films or books.
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I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad.
