William Wharton Quotes
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.
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Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.
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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
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I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?
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What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
