Bill Konigsberg Quotes
I knew I could have danced if I wanted to, really. But I didn’t, so I didn’t have to. The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on its axis when everyone else is bouncing around.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive - that's it.
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From the time, I have been in politics, your love has kept me going. All Gujaratis have all right on me, but you have now shared that right with the people of India.' 'It's the first poll in my political life when I didn't have political sabha in Ahmedabad.
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She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.
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Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.
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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
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Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
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I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.
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My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around. This has really been a wake-up call in terms of what's important, and I'm working hard to figure that out. I need to get better at not doing favors for people all the time. It's hard because there's so many people who have helped me get to the point where I'm in a band that people wanna come see, or where people pay money to see me lecture.
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I knew I could have danced if I wanted to, really. But I didn’t, so I didn’t have to. The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on its axis when everyone else is bouncing around.
