William Shatner Quotes
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.
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Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
