William Goldman Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I love to push myself.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.
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I love cereals. We must have 10 to 15 boxes. But if I'm being honest, I have Fruit Loops and Lucky Charms hidden behind the healthier ones.
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
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Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
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You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
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Have fun storming the castle!
