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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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me.
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My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.
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We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.
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There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
