Earl Wilson Quotes
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars.
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I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
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If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength
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Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it's metal.
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
