Douglas Wilson Quotes
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I have a great office.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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I believe in people.
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Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I will never cheat in any walk of life.
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I didn't like what we did. You can't leave one country and head off to another and spend more time on the plane than training or playing.
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I know people don't think I work.
