William Goldman Quotes
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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But I think we need the international market.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
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You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.
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Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.
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The first black president will be a politician who is black.
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My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.