William Whitehead Quotes
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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I think you try to improve every season and every game and be prepared about certain defensemen you're playing against, certain ways to find open ice.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.
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Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
