Earl Wilson Quotes
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
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Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.
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It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
