William V. Shannon Quotes
What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I am a just man.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.
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I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
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The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.
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What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
