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 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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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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You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
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You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...
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That was a time when only the dead could smile, delivered from their wars, and the sign, the soul, of Leningrad dangled outside its prison-house...
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
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Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.
