James Q. Wilson Quotes
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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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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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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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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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If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
