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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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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If there be anything in a remark often to be met with, namely that there is, in the genius of the people of this country, a peculiar aptitude for mechanic improvements, it would operate as a forcible reason for giving opportunities to the exercise of that species of talent, by the propagation of manufactures.
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It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which is equitable and good it is for them to direct their own movements, to seek in the their conscience reasons for their actions, and to perform them simply, without either fearing punishment or looking for reward.
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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.
