David L. Wolper Quotes
I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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People are always ready to pull you down.
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I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.
