William J. H. Boetcker Quotes
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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Success does not necessarily involve great intellect, or great position, or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
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Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
