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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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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I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
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Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.
