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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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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You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.
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My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
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I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here?Do I hope or do I fear?For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight.Are we the last ones left alive?Are we the only human beings to survive? - Red Sector A (1984)
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I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
