Wilson Pickett Quotes
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to my mom and dad for giving me all this music. I don't really sing this as a singer, because I'm not a singer. But I wanted to do it for them.
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There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion.
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Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.
