William H. Macy Quotes

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

William H. Macy

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• Grew

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • King
  • Constitution
  • Fidelity

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Money
  • Nice
  • First

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Questions

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

  

  Gary Player
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Thoughts

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • Deep

• Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Suicide

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Something

• As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • You
  • iPhone

• My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Father
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

  

  Kelly Jones
  • Small

• There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Today
  • Light

• I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Myself
  • Will
  • Later

• I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

  

  Brenda Blethyn
  • Work
  • Done
  • Drama

• I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Writing
  • Television
  • Grew