Bill Willingham Quotes

Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press.

Bill Willingham

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• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Press

• I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Internet
  • Press
  • Mouth

• I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • People
  • Press
  • Envious

• If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • God
  • Done
  • Fun

• We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don't listen to it. We take it with a grain of salt and keep moving on.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Bad
  • Hate
  • Band

• Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Reality

• I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Hair
  • Blonde
  • Killed

• The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Friend
  • Acknowledge

• Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Courage
  • Consequences

• I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Never
  • Talk
  • Believing

• A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Passionate
  • Killed

• There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Freedom
  • Problem
  • Believing

• While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Important
  • Question
  • Killed

• A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Soul
  • Killed
  • Distinction

• People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Enemy
  • Achieve
  • Weapons

• If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Existence
  • Battle
  • Destroy

• Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Imagine

• So, when you train no-gi all the time, the no-gi style evolves quicker, twice as fast. Especially, the way we do it at 10th Planet, I am not just the one conveying the knowledge. All my students are involved.

  

  Eddie Bravo
  • Knowledge
  • Students
  • Train

• Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

  

  Richard Roeper
  • Holiday
  • Possible
  • Generic

• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Morning
  • Try
  • Twitter

• Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• Winning streaks are impressive because it's a model of consistency. Streaks mean you haven't let your guard down and you've taken care of business when everyone knows what a difficult task that is.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Winning
  • Model
  • Consistency

• Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Killed
  • Press
  • Believing