Debra Wilson Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
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I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.
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Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.
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When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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Professor Eric Zolt of UCLA, said to me, "The VAT is such a good idea, mark my words, within five years, the U.S. will have a VAT." Then he said, "Of course, I've been saying that for 20 years."
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Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.
