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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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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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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It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.
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Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
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Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
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What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.
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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.
