William Jones Quotes
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Being evil is easy.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
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The real world is horrible.
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
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When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours.
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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
