Paul Wolfowitz Quotes
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
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When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
