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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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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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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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
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I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.
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My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.
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I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad.
