William Shatner Quotes
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
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Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
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If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.
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My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
