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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Noise does not disturb me, as I think that it gives a quaint atmosphere to a picture that fully matches my vision of nature and the wild species I like to photograph.
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We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness.
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The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
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Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.
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Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.
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If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.
