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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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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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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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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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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Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
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A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.
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I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn't feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was not extreme, so it was very simple to go from England to America in the adaptation.
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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
