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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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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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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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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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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The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
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It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
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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.
