Bill Willingham Quotes
Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.
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I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.
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To be real successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish; then resolve to pay the price to get it.
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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
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If your dreams are bigger than your talent, work harder. If your talent is bigger than your dreams, dream bigger.
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Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
