William Thomas Councilman Quotes
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
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You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it.
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When I didn't have friends, I had books.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.
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We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.
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Life is a disease ...
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Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
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When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
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Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
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Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.
