Bill Willingham Quotes
Why is it you intense political types insist on living entirely in the symbolic world?
Quotes to Explore
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.
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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
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How can a mother's heart feel cold or wearyKnowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm?How can she feel her road too dark or dreary,Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm?How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding,Our God forgot, our holy saints defied;But can a mother hear her dead child pleading,And thrust those little angel hands aside?
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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
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Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings.
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We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.
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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
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I'm awkward around girls.
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I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
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The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
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As an actor, you audition a lot for 'the girlfriend' or the 'hot girl.'
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If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
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I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
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I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
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There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.
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Why is it you intense political types insist on living entirely in the symbolic world?
