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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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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Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.
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I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
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There are definitely some songs you sing and you just know there's something about it - there's kind of a touch on it that's different. But there are no rules to that. Every time, it's a surprise and it's humbling to hear that people are singing the songs in different places and different parts of the world. We're always amazed by that.
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To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
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I've never made a move that I didn't feel was right in my gut.
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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.
