William H. Macy Quotes
Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.
Quotes to Explore
-
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
-
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
-
I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
-
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
-
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
-
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
-
When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
-
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
-
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
-
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
-
If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
-
I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
-
I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.
-
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
-
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
-
I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
-
In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.
-
All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want to put strings on something... And everything sounds good when it's in the cans; it sounds killer.
-
'She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.'
-
The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!
-
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.
-
There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
-
'Spring Awakening' was a discovery for all involved. None of us will ever have that specific sense of revelation in the same way - that is probably the thing I miss the most.
-
Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.
