William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Quotes
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
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I will keep working hard!
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.
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The theory of population genetics and experiments on other organisms show that substantial changes can occur in the span of less than 100 generations, which for man reaches back to the time of the Roman Empire.
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.
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Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.
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If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
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When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
