Willem Dafoe Quotes

Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

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• Do we mean love, when we say love?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Mean
  • Say

• Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Past

• I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Sometimes
  • Name
  • White

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Best
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Tired
  • Amazed
  • Runners

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Journalism

• I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • Model

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Nature

• Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • Translation
  • Concerns

• A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Real
  • Memories
  • Events

• Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Wonderful
  • Anything
  • Closely

• It's always good to have your fan base and to continue to do what you love to do and making a living and seeing the people and travel and do everything, it's always a great thing for me.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • People
  • Travel
  • Fans

• Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Past
  • Mean
  • Sometimes