Bill Withers Quotes
When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.
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I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.
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As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
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Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.
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When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
