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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• 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

• 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

• Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Mind
  • Business

• I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in fiction. With social media, no one wants to watch or read if it doesn't feel authentic, so you end up giving away a lot of yourself.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Up
  • Giving

• I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

  

  Dom DeLuise
  • House

• It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.

  

  Annie Barrows
  • Mind
  • Person
  • Lonely

• The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • World
  • Truth
  • American

• The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

  

  Hafez
  • World
  • Soul
  • Eye

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

  

  James Q. Wilson