William Slim (Bill Slim) Quotes
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

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My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.
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It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.
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Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.
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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.