William H. Macy Quotes
It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.
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Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself to them, and I want to be my own thing, but I think that message is what I want to say as an artist.
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If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
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I really enjoy working on adaptations.
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It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.
