William H. Macy Quotes
The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need some guidance. Not only for the kids, but for adults, as well. If you don't like to see a certain kind of film, there should be some rating, so that you know what you're getting into. But the present system doesn't work.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.
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De omnibus dubitandum.
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I believe in singing.
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The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need some guidance. Not only for the kids, but for adults, as well. If you don't like to see a certain kind of film, there should be some rating, so that you know what you're getting into. But the present system doesn't work.
