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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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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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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Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.
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Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.
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I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
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They're mounting a campaign right now with the ACLU and a lot of different organizations advocating for [Edward Snoden] pardoning before [Barack] Obama leaves office. Wouldn't it be incredible to see something like that happen? I don't know what we can expect. I am interested in the different points and perspectives that people have.
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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.
