William H. Macy Quotes

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Change
  • Perfect
  • Perfection

• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Change
  • Conscience

• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Man
  • Fans
  • Sexy

• I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• I know every politician spins the truth a little.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Politician

• For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Me
  • Difference
  • Seeing

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Unexpected

• I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Musician
  • Appreciate

• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Fight
  • Adversity

• Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Food
  • Stop

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Crime
  • Very
  • Clear

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Science
  • Something

• My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • War
  • Father

• Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Joy
  • Anger
  • Battlefield

• Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Night
  • Single

• The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Thought
  • Vote

• I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

  

  William H. Macy
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