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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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart. Gather my composure, rather my swagger and my couture.Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric. In other words, I reposition how I sit it. Then make you feel it, like I mispronounced 'filet.'
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I have nothing to teach you that will help you to make a living. as art teacher, advising his students
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“Let them that don't want it have memories of not gettin' any." "Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty and the worst I ever had was wonderful." …”
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I voted for Barack Obama largely on the basis of his temperament, which I thought superior. He is only 47 years old, but to me seemed older than that: a man of precocious aspect and judgment.
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Only time will tell if it was time well-spent
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I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.
