Treat Williams Quotes
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
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I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
