Bill Konigsberg Quotes
That was a level of commitment I’d never be able to understand, and I wished there was something out there I felt so strongly about I’d willingly die for it.
Quotes to Explore
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'
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The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.
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AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,Ay, screen it if you may,-Yet I misdoubt thy trembling handWill scare the hawk away.
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The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
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If I couldn't do it my way, I'd best stay at home.
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I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.
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Riding through the city on my bike all day Cause the filth took away my license It doesn't get me down and I feel OK Cause the sights that I'm seeing are pricelessEverything seems to look as it shouldBut I wonder what goes on behind doorsA fella looking dapper, but he's sitting with a slapperThen I see it's a pimp and his crack whore.
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I have long thought that our vacant territory was the resource which, in some mode or other, was most applicable and adequate as a gradual cure for the portentous evil; without, however, being unaware that even that would encourage serious difficulties of different sorts.
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I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
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I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.
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The great Emathian conqueror bid spareThe house of Pindarus, when temple and towerWent to the ground.
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Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.
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I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.
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That was a level of commitment I’d never be able to understand, and I wished there was something out there I felt so strongly about I’d willingly die for it.
