William H. Macy Quotes
Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
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Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.
