James Q. Wilson Quotes

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

James Q. Wilson

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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.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• 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.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Age
  • Lost

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Friend
  • Helped
  • Stylist

• Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Speech

• 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.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Change
  • Government
  • Care

• I'm too disorganized.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Too
  • Disorganized

• 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.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• 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.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Friends
  • Know
  • College

• What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Trying
  • Small
  • Rock

• I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Young

• When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • School
  • Films

• 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.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • People
  • Time
  • Unique

• 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.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • You
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • True
  • Today
  • Suicide

• 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.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• Routine is part of coping.

  

  Lorene Scafaria

• When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Learning
  • Sticks
  • Inscription

• That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Believe

• Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sun
  • Flowers
  • Perfume

• But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

  

  James Q. Wilson