William Watson Quotes
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
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Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.
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It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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One of the pleasures of writing novels is that my characters usually do something. But in real life we often stay locked in a situation that we know is painful or wrong.
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A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.
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Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.
