William Ames Quotes
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
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After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
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I'm very humble.
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Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.
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Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Neutral men are the devil's allies.
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
