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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Adequacy is sufficient.
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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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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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I think you'd have to live under a rock to not know who MacGyver is.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.
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When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.
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I'd like my son to remember me as a good dad.
