William H. Whyte Quotes
People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
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In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.
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I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
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People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.
