William Shatner Quotes

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

William Shatner

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• With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Win
  • President
  • Member

• 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Real
  • Value
  • Personality

• All our wives are experimental psychologists.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Our
  • Wives
  • Experimental

• The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Freedom

• I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Experience
  • City
  • New York

• I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Hollywood
  • Horrible
  • Satire

• I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Work
  • America
  • Really

• I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Good
  • She

• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Time
  • Long
  • Food

• You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Good
  • Help
  • Creativity

• We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it's been trained on human-generated data. Our biases are built into that training data.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Training

• I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.

  

  Kelly Hu
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

  

  Amy Jackson

• Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Time
  • Death
  • Freedom

• Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Children

• In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Trying

• I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Up
  • Food

• I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Trying
  • She
  • Book

• This story does not have a happy ending; they almost never do. The only happy stories you will ever hear are told by men—they spin their lies, trying to convince themselves that they cause no devastation, and that the hearts they break were never worth much to begin with.

  

  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Story
  • Hearts
  • Convince

• I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Powerful
  • Sometimes

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Food

• My daughter came to us last night and insisted we contribute in some way to Earth Day.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Earth
  • Daughter
  • Came

• I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

  

  William Shatner
  • Convince