William Shatner Quotes

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.

William Shatner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: March 22, 1931

Topics

FutureMusicScienceWorldThink

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Joanna Russ

GrowthArtMinorityOnlyMargins

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

Andrew Young

BlackBetterWhiteComfortableMore

I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.

America Ferrera

DogWalkPizzaWantEatWatch

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Sigmund Freud

MenStrongLongBecomePowerless

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form.

Trevor St. John

GoodMusicArtOpinionMusicians

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

Michael Shannon

LifeGreatThinkYouEarlyActing

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Michael Shermer

GroupTrueReasonOutIndividual

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Lucas Till

RespectTalentPeopleLot

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Ludwig Bemelmans

PerfectionFindingArtistTroubleHe

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

Joshua Jackson

TimeMyselfHatePeopleMeStupid

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.

Jason Biggs

GreatHumorBalanceSweetStoryYou

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Derek Bok

EducationKnowledgePurposeCollege

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