William Weld Quotes
We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
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When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!
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'Mister!' he said with a sawdusty sneeze. 'I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I'm asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs' – He was very upset as he shouted and puffed – 'What's that THING you've made out of my Truffula tuft?'
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I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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We thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party, etcetera, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option.
