William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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This bikini made me a success.
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Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Kleenex would have made a mint today.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He didn't respond at all, which made me like him even more.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.
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I call on the United States and the European Union to tell Saleh that he must leave now...They should end all support for his regime, especially that which is used to crush peaceful opposition...They should freeze the Saleh family's assets and those of Saleh's henchmen and return them to the people.
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Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.
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I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.
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I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
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I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.
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Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... the instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
