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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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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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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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.
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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
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I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
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That in the soul which is called mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body.
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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.
