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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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
