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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I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.
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When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.
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Hopefully, by the experience from playing the Speidel Course, they will have a better time and play better than they have before.
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For years, I have been a strong supporter of clean, safe nuclear energy as an important part of our energy mix.
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All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
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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.
