William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Quotes
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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The devil made me do it.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
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Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.
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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
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By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
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In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.
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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
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I think the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.
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And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.
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It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
