J. William Fulbright Quotes
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.
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If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.
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Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.
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Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.
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It's exciting being around people who are adults - I actually race out the door in the morning and shout, 'Bye!'
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
