William Shatner Quotes
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
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I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
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Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
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When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, 'for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot.'
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
