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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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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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.
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I'm not particularly ethnically Scottish; I have one grandfather who is Scottish, although he's called Macdonald, and you don't get a lot more Scottish than that. The Scottish part of my family are from Skye, and I've always been very aware of that - always been very attracted to Scottish subject matter, I guess.
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Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
