William J. Mayo Quotes
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I grew up in New York.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
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I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
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When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.
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I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.
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The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
