William Wharton Quotes
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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I love dressing up.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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I sought trains; I found passengers.
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There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.
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'During my next visit with you, fellow-believers,' he said, 'I shall tell you a parable about people who do things that they think God Almighty wants done. In the meanwhile, you would do well, for background on this parable, to read everything that you can lay your hands on about the Spanish Inquisition.'
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'I consider this Negro Benjamin Banneker as fresh proof that the powers of the mind are disconnected with the colour of the skin or in other words, a striking contradiction to Mr. Hume's doctrine that 'the Negroes are naturally inferior to the whites and unsusceptible of attainments in arts and sciences.'' 123
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There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
