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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There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
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Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
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People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.
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I could never be a distance runner, because I can't run for more than ten minutes. There aren't enough iPod gigabytes in the world to make that worth it for me.
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
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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.
