William Johnson Cory Quotes
All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.
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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
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I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.
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It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
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All I knew about shot putting was that my brother could do 44 feet … I decided I wanted to beat him. … So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.
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I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me is it took away my ability to sing with a range because it paralyzed my vocal chords, so that was when I started playing. But I hear the music as if I were singing even when I am playing.
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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.
