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.
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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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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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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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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
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Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.
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It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.
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I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
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I want to always be an interloper. I never want to feel like I'm a guy who is embraced by the people who are putting me on the air. I want to feel like I broke into the studio and took over and made them mad. If I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.
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I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.
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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.
