William Rainey Harper Quotes
Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
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I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip. Everyone has a connection to Hamas. Everyone receives a salary from Hamas. Those who are trying to challenge us at the border and breach it belong to Hamas’s military wing.
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We have to build the spiritual world out of symbols taken from our own personality, as we build the scientific world out of the symbols of the mathematician.
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No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
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The two questions I always ask myself are 'What if' and 'Why not?
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Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
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My grandfather is a blues musician.
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It is unbelievable that the federal court itself ignores that rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution apply in Puerto Rico.
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We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.
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Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.
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Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
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Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.
