William McGregor Paxton Quotes
Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
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When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
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There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
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I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.
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I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.
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For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.
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I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.
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'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'
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Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
