James Q. Wilson Quotes
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
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I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.
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I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.
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I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.
