William Hurt Quotes
When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I was a tomboy.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan for a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
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When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.
