Bill Konigsberg Quotes
The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
Quotes to Explore
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
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All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.
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The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
