William Binney Quotes
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
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I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
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I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.
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In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door.
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Just as people asked ‘Why do they hate us?’ after 9/11, one evening I asked my father, ‘Why did they do this to us?’ He took a long breath and paused, deeply concerned about what he was about to say. ‘The Muslims bombed us because we are Christians. They want us dead because they hate us’ This hate was not because we had armies in the Middle East or because we supported Israel or for any of the reasons people easily turn to today. It was because we were Christians, infidels. As a child, I was just too young to understand all the political implications, but I understood one thing: people wanted to kill me simply because I was a Christian.
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Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.
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Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.
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I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
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The NSA's vision statement is: keep the problem going so the money keeps flowing.
