William J Doherty Quotes
If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
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From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
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There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
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And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
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If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
