Bob Wise Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I'm not a control freak.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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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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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I know what poverty is.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Who is this man who's got the knife?
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!
