William J. H. Boetcker Quotes
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.
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If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
