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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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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If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking for help, I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is.
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If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
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If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.
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Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.
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We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.
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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.
