Bill Konigsberg Quotes
And I think it's thanks to Jordan. I would never have done any of this if I hadn't met him, and if he hadn't showed me how to be real and serious with another guy.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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Isn't that why people keep diaries - to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?
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I wrote the feeling's new to me, in my sincerity.
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We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.
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Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
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And I think it's thanks to Jordan. I would never have done any of this if I hadn't met him, and if he hadn't showed me how to be real and serious with another guy.
