Bill Courtney Quotes
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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Man is a tool-making animal.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
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I am very proud of being Jewish.
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No matter how exhausted I am after a show, I always take my makeup off. Even if it's just with a remover wipe.
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Our next black president, I think, can be more like Muhammad Ali.
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Disco is just jitterbug.
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Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.
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I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
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If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
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I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.
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In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
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A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
