William Shatner Quotes
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
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Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.
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I think there were moments on Snow White where I wished there was a little bit more of a sick humor toward Ravenna. But maybe the tone of the movie couldn't really support that. So you always have to kind of figure out where you are and adapt to it. Kristen Stewart
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Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
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Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
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The world has been priced for bad news economically which just isn't coming through. The low yield environment might not be right.
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If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.
