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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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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I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.
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I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see, so many good people.' And it's vice versa, and it helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.
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I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
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When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.
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Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.
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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.
