William Proxmire Quotes
The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what's wrong with this country.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.
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The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.
