William Shenstone Quotes
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I never lie to my fans.
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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To understand a man is really to be that man.
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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You Pasman, you have it inside, too.
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Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
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Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.
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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
