William Barclay Quotes
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.
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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
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A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
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The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
