While Quotes
3600 quotes by 2874 authors
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When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it.…
— Christopher Walken
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I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest…
— Paul Walker
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still…
— David Foster Wallace
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
— Barbara Walters
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My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her…
— Julie Walters
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My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can…
— Julie Walters
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles…
— Booker T. Washington
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I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job…
— Denzel Washington
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I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used…
— Ethel Waters
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I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.
— Emma Watson
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
— Alan Watts
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The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted…
— Sigourney Weaver
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I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
— Scott Weiland
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I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through…
— Scott Weiland
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I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to…
— Len Wein
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I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.
— Johnny Weir
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
— Jack Welch
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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
— Jack Welch
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of…
— Jack Welch
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