William Shatner Quotes
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
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Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
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In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.
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Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!
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I don't believe that heavy strings make it all that much bigger-sounding. If anything, it can mess up your fingers, and you can get tendonitis, which is not cool.
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
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You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is, you get the last word. You can spin it any way you want to…If you can go third person on yourself, you can sit down and have a 10-15 minute conversation.
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Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
