James Q. Wilson Quotes
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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I never go wild with nails.
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Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman.
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I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
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... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still a good part of the time and don't go wandering all over creation. I know a good thing when I see it, and my web is a good thing. I stay put and wait for what comes. Gives me a chance to think.
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Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
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This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.
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My collections are full of adaptable pieces: within the energetic lifestyle of L.A., they are able to take you from the beach in Malibu to the red carpet in Hollywood.
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
