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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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
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I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.
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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.
