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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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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.
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America is huge.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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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.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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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.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.
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I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
