William Shatner Quotes
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.
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A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
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Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
