William Shatner Quotes
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
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'They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.'
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.
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Silence makes me feel vulnerable.
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The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
