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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I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.
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I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
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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.
