William Broyles, Jr. Quotes
What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
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I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don't really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it's going to make this year.
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At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can't take anything away from that. But it's pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.
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'The Stooges' used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff.
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I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
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Yoga is not a religion to me.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.
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A reader's own imagination is a far more powerful form of CGI than anything any movie can provide because it's unique. In your own imagination, you can enter all sorts of worlds, and they are unique to you because no other reader will interpret a book the same way.
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What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?
