William Ewart Napier Quotes

The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

William Ewart Napier

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• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

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• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

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• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

  

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• Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

  Oscar Levant
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• The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

  

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• That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

  

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• I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.

  

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• I train to be the champion.

  

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• I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

  

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• I don't need much coaxing.

  

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• You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

  

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• 'I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.''As listeners, we are not required to understand,' said Qiingi. 'Only to care.'

  

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• One of my first interviews was Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Johnny Depp for 'Pirates of the Caribbean.' I was in eighth grade at the time, little teenybopper. I was so, so nervous. I just remember Johnny had an aura around him.

  

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• I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

  

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• We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

  

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• It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.

  

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• As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

  

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• I love being outdoors, water sports, hiking - really, anything that keeps me moving!

  

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• I've been patient with everything - management, coaches, players - but I want to play. I think I took my time eating my soup, the soup is gone. Now it's time for the main course. The appetizers, throw them out the window.

  

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• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

  

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• The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

  

  William Ewart Napier
  • Moving
  • Responsible
  • Investment