William Shatner Quotes

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• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Political
  • Balance

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Way
  • Poor

• Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Will

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Goals
  • Strength

• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Deep
  • Religion

• The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Business
  • Think
  • Change

• It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Past
  • Story

• It may be a hundred-year battle to turn around our industries and finally get everyone living on sustainable energy with technology that can keep our lives comfortable. If that's the case, the first 20 years of the shift have actually done a lot to support that. But there's still a long way to go, and judging by the state of the environment, we don't have that kind of time.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Strong
  • Romantic
  • Hopeless

• I was a delivery boy at one point.

  

  Mark Pontius
  • Boy

• To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators. They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Art
  • Education
  • Passion

• Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

  

  William Shatner
  • Energy
  • Creativity
  • Keys