Sam Walton Quotes
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I think I need security.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.
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I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
