William A. Henry III Quotes

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

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• If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Never
  • Mistakes
  • Upset

• No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Law
  • Government

• When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Want
  • Me
  • Car

• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Compassion

• Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Started

• Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • True
  • Baby
  • Sun

• I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • She
  • Fun

• I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Voice

• I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Married

• Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Truth
  • Eyes
  • Picture

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Money
  • Song
  • Show

• My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Brother
  • King
  • Loved

• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Powerful

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Me
  • Silence
  • Sword

• Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Woman
  • Reels

• I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.

  

  Naoki Higashida
  • Long
  • Inspiring
  • Strive

• Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

  

  William A. Henry III
  • First
  • Facts
  • Departure