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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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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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 have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
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The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other purposes? ... The government history on this subject is not an encouraging one.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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Secret: A private matter whispered abroad and never kept to oneself. By naming it a secret, we immediately indicate its presence. If we really wanted to keep secrets, we would not have a name for them.
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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.
