Wellington Webb Quotes
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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I've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy.
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
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There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex
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Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.
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Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.
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A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
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John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.
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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.
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The one thing that nobody else in the world can touch is the coffee in Australia.
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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
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It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.
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The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
