William Kunstler Quotes
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
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When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.
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A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.
