William Wharton Quotes
Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.
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Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class - that has always been the source of our progress at home. It’s also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.
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A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
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But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
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Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
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...have you ever noticed how the one who wants to please never does?
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My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.
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I don't think it's a black and white issue. If a man's family is starving so to speak, I don't think I'll hold it against him for stealing a loaf of bread.
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I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.
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Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.
