James Q. Wilson Quotes
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
James Q. Wilson
Quotes to Explore
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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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.
Tanith Lee
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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.
D. B. Sweeney
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel Castro
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
Natasha Tsakos
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You can do yoga all day, you can run or bike or swim, but a pull-up will still be hard. It's not that you have to be a juiced-up 'lunk' to do one; it's a matter of physics.
Kyle Hill
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We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
Oswald Chambers
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Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; they owned land in their own right. They could divorce their husbands if they wanted to. All of those wonderful allowances that were made for women in the Viking culture weren't really part of the Christian culture at the time.
Alyssa Sutherland
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In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.
Amor Towles
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The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.
Zadie Smith
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
James Q. Wilson
