Douglas Wilson Quotes
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I think soul will always find its way into what I'm doing. It just comes from my root.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
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I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.
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Photographer Julian Wasser had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized.
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Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.
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I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
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Crisis creates leverage to change.
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Obama’s NASA budget perfectly captures the difference between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons, Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.
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I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.
