William Shatner Quotes
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.
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Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
