William Arthur Ward Quotes
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The Sichuan disaster is not the first nor the most wrongful. But all the details of this tragedy will be forgotten, and once again it will be like nothing ever happened. Eventually all these disasters will together create a bizarre miracle called civilization and evolution.
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When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'm noticing and aware of and thinking about, because when you're doing a series, you think about more than just jokes... you know, when you're doing a comedy, you think about what's going to reflect people's experiences, in a way.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
