James Q. Wilson Quotes
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.
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Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.
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In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
