James Q. Wilson Quotes

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

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• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • You
  • Routine

• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Real
  • Done
  • Fun

• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Working
  • Honest
  • Computers

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Day
  • Decision

• My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Faith

• Prayer is man's greatest power!

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Power
  • Man
  • Prayer

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Trees

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Children
  • Way
  • Brother

• Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Problems
  • Japan
  • Cowardice

• When I work, I work non-stop and so hard that I barely get time to see anything but the set and home. So whenever I am done with one show, I go into my globetrotter mode and just pick a place and disappear for a while.

  

  Krystle D'Souza
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

  

  Kanye West
  • Rap
  • Miracle

• From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Money
  • Art
  • Power

• There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

  

  Leon Wieseltier
  • Power

• For we put the power in the people.

  

  William Penn
  • People
  • Power

• A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

  

  James Q. Wilson
  • Power