William Shatner Quotes

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

William Shatner

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Long
  • You
  • Possible

• Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Why
  • Want
  • Food

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Me
  • Day
  • Focus

• You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Sometimes

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Find

• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Home
  • Suffering
  • Ability

• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  

  Earl Browder
  • War
  • Help
  • Free

• At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Relationships
  • Personal

• If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Live
  • You
  • Lived

• If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Me

• I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Directors
  • Top

• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • You
  • Memory

• As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Gold

• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.

  

  Bill Plympton
  • Dog
  • Walking
  • Bird

• My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Parents

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

  

  William Shatner
  • School
  • Cards
  • Loud