William Lipscomb Quotes
When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
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It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.
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They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
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The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
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Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved Him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.
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If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.
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Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
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All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
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I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness as did my three brothers and sisters.
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Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
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I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.
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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
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When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.
