William C. DeMille Quotes
I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
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For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
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Not the individual man nor a single generation by its own power can erect the bridge that leads to God. Faith is the achievement of many generations, and effort accumulated over many centuries. … There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith.
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One man, one vote: A legal doctrine requiring that, from time to time, old gerrymanders be replaced with new ones. The object of this is the achievement of genuine democracy.
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Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants “the same grub and the same pay,” as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the “wrong” people currently do the fighting.
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Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.
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A girl fainted in front of me the other day. Obviously you don't get to see things like that unless you are The Beatles who have that power, and to see it that close was a bit scary... It was cool to know I can make a girl faint!
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I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
