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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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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I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.
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We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
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I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.
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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.
