William Wharton Quotes
People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I'm very excited to have a girl.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.
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People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't know any different. I grew up in a very tall house, so I wasn't an anomaly there.
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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
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People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.
