Beau Willimon Quotes
Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.
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We know what they say, they want all of Palestine including Israel and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I have no kicks at all The fact is I'm pretty happy about the whole thing...I enjoy this country. I like the parks and the highways and the good schools and everything that this Government does.
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The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
