Bill Willingham Quotes

Why is it you intense political types insist on living entirely in the symbolic world?

Bill Willingham

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• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• 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.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Stock

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Success
  • You

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• He who frames the question wins the debate.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Question
  • Debate
  • Frames

• Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Science
  • Inspiration
  • Essence

• When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Real
  • Business

• Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • World
  • Long
  • Recovery

• 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?

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Music
  • Power
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Popular

• We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• I'm awkward around girls.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Girls
  • To Be
  • Awkward

• I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Character

• The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

  

  Kurt Schwitters
  • Work
  • Art
  • Picture

• As an actor, you audition a lot for 'the girlfriend' or the 'hot girl.'

  

  Kathryn Newton
  • Girl
  • Girlfriend

• I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• When I talk about democratic socialist, I'm not looking at Venezuela. I'm not looking at Cuba. I'm looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

  

  Martha Beck

• Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

  

  Orson Welles
  • Genius
  • Denies

• The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Flight
  • Dusk
  • Minerva

• There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • American
  • Police
  • Guns

• Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Literature
  • Interpretations
  • English Teacher

• Why is it you intense political types insist on living entirely in the symbolic world?

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Political Types
  • Symbolic World