William Thomas Ellis Quotes
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age
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Rising interest rates have been advertised for so long and in so many places that anyone who has not appropriately hedged this position by now obviously is desirous of losing money.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
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Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
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The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.
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I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
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I relate to Michael Keaton's character in 'Birdman' so much, how he has that voice being so mean and then another boosting his confidence.
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Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
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If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.
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I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
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When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
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I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.
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It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.
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People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
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We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.
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It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
