William H. Macy Quotes

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

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• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Vision
  • Smart
  • Relationships

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Know
  • Hate
  • Child

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Morning

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Demons

• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Myself

• I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Real
  • Know
  • Water

• There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Think
  • Down

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

  

  Wilfrid Sheed
  • English
  • Intelligent
  • French

• Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be WWE Champion. I've been in love with sports-entertainment for my entire life, and I always wanted to do that.

  

  David Otunga
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Champion

• Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Morning

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• Tolstoy was an advocate of non-resistance only because he was protected from people’s impudence by his innumerable friends. One man can stand for non-resistance, because those who stand for resistance will protect him. You will not be able to do without resistance advocates.

  

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
  • People
  • Friends

• When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Suffering