William Martin Quotes
How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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I've never been a partier.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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Time found our tired love sleeping,And kissed away his breath;But what should we do weeping,Though light love sleep to death?We have drained his lips at leisure,Till there's not left to drainA single sob of pleasure,A single pulse of pain.
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And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
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A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
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Now's the time to teach your 5-year-old kid about financing. If they can add, I suggest that you start teaching them about saving that money. And how their money can add up in the future. I think the more you prepare your children for the future, the better off they'll be.
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Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism that America had no choice but to pursue.
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My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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It's a very tough job to host a show and a very tough job to produce a show, and you're in a no-win position.
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How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.
