William H. Macy Quotes

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

William H. Macy

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Day

• I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Poetry

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Decision

• Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Interest

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
  • City

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Computers

• Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

  

  Earl Browder
  • History
  • System
  • Socialism

• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Team
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Choice

• Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Chance
  • Try
  • Risks

• Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Different
  • Me
  • Hand

• When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Bores

• The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Guy
  • Day

• When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.

  

  Annie Elizabeth Delany
  • White
  • Negroes
  • Colored

• Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Job
  • Going
  • Season

• A woman with a mind, a body with a soul. A heart full of love, that won't let go.

  

  Mindy McCready
  • Mind
  • Letting
  • Adages

• I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Situation