Paul Wolfowitz Quotes
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
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Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
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I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
