William Shatner Quotes
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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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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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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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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If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
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One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.
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If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.
