William Langewiesche Quotes
Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
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A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.
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Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
