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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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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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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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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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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Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.
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I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.
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If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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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.
