Walter J. West Quotes
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.
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Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things that you do have and not the things you don’t have.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you're in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don't fix.
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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
