William Mountford Quotes
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
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It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
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I admire Governor Blagojevich's unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
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I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
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I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. ... And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.
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'I'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'
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The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the 'conventions' of the symbolic system.
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People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.
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For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
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I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.
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To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.
