Bill Pullman Quotes

I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.

Bill Pullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 17, 1953

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I think what is important, whether you are Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, is to embrace and own your identity. I think that's not political. That's good in life, and it certainly is the best way to be when you are running for office. If you don't do that, the voters will see through it.

Joel Benenson

LifeGoodBestIdentityThinkYou

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

Robert G. Allen

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Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

Tony Blair

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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Tom Stoppard

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Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

River Phoenix

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Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

Robin S. Sharma

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The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

Ronda Rousey

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Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you.

Rupert Friend

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I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

Michael Morpurgo

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We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

Douglas Leone

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I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

Susan Sullivan

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