William Mountford Quotes
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
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When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. 'Logic' proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.
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Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
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Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.
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The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.
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I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.
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I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.
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My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.
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This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
