William Singe (Liam Anthony "William" Singe) Quotes
I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
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The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.
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When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
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You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
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If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
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The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We can look at 1619, when Africans first came here, and how early African slaves intermixed pretty indiscriminately with indentured white servants.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.
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Things have to touch me as a human being. I do films that touch my heart.
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I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.
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I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.
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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
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Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.
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I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.
