James Q. Wilson Quotes

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

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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.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Couple

• I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • God
  • Believe
  • Same

• There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Problem
  • Fans
  • Economics

• Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • American
  • Pretty

• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Author
  • Very

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Happy
  • Health

• 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.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• 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.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Career

• The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Beliefs
  • Revolutionary

• I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Find
  • Lazy
  • Theater

• 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.

  

  Aberjhani
  • True
  • Nature
  • Lost

• I never go wild with nails.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Never
  • WIld
  • Nails

• 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.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Love
  • She
  • Truth

• I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • People
  • Normal
  • Fears

• I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Think
  • Person

• So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • World
  • Work
  • Wish

• I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Red
  • Celebrity

• Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Job
  • Water
  • Red

• I dyed my own hair this Chocolate Cherry color, and I forget what brand it was, but I remember getting into so much trouble because it stained our bathtub. It was this red-black color, and it was a big mistake.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Remember
  • Black
  • Hair

• Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Science
  • Earth

• I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

  

  James Q. Wilson
  • Red