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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
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All dogs die too soon. Many humans don't die soon enough. A dog is only a dog. And a dog is too gorgeously normal and wholesome to be made ridiculous in death by his owner's sloppy sentimentality.
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Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.
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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.
