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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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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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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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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I had a barbecue stain on my white T-shirt.She was killin' me in that mini-skirt.Skipping rocks on the river by the railroad tracks.She had a suntan line and red lipstick.I work so hard for that first kiss and a heart don't forget, something like that.
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I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
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When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
