Bill Courtney Quotes
Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Dream and you shall become.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, in 'The Wall,' are superheroes. They're very grounded, but the amount of training and stuff that soldiers bring to the field, they're like Iron Man.
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It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.
