William Shatner Quotes
Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
Quotes to Explore
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake.
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Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
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When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.
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Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
