James Q. Wilson Quotes
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'ReadyMade''s first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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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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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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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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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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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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Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.
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I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.
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Red is uplifting.
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Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
