William McNamara Quotes
I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.
Quotes to Explore
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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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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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I'm evangelical.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.
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Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
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Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
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I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.
