William Emerson Arnett (Will Arnett) Quotes
I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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War is over if you want it.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some not. Style grows from admiration, from longing, from discrimination—and, yes, from love. It’s all the places you’ve been to and the people and the moments you’ve known: the parts you’ve adopted, to keep forever, and transformed. We wear our history in our hearts and on our backs.
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Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.
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Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?
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I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.
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I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.
