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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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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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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I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
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Living in L.A. keeps me in my car a lot, and I'm constantly flipping back and forth between the following Sirius/XM Radio stations: NFL Radio, MLB Radio, POTUS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.
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What did we build it for? Was it all a dream? . . .Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam . . .And after a while they will fall to dust and rain;Or else we will tear them down with impatient hands;And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.
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I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
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The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
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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.
