William Arthur Ward Quotes
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
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You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.
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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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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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And you know, ... it is pretty much a rallying cry for everything we do. I mean, we may turn those guitars up -- and play hard and loud -- but in the end, we're all about taking country music and setting it on stun. That's what we do, and that's what this song is about.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.
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I swim three times a week.
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
