You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.


Bill Drayton

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As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories f...
BILL GOLDBERG
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'...
BILL HICKS
I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES
The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
BILL COPELAND
I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave th...
BILL COSBY
A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
BILL TOOMEY
Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disrega...
BILL FLORES
One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are...
BILL MURRAY
Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
BILL EVANS
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol...
BILL MUMY
I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH
No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no ma...
BILL PARCELLS
I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is...
BILL GATES
People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the...
BILL BRYSON
The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence brief...
BILL MAHER
William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was...
BILL DEDMAN
The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses th...
BILL WALTON
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, h...
BILL WALTON
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people t...
BILL WALTON
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
BILL WHEELER
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSON
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
BILL WATTERSON