James Q. Wilson Quotes
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.
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I'm too disorganized.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
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What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
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I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.
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I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.
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What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.
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I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks 'wow, I must have been really great' and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.
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Routine is part of coping.
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I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
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I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.
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I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.
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People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.
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I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.
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But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
