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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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
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The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution into rent, interest, wages, and profits is only remotely related to the subject. This subject, the causes and cures for the actual distribution of capital and income among real persons, is one of the many now in need of our best efforts as scientific students of society.
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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
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And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.
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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.
