Warren Kole Quotes
I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.
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We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.
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I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.
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I'm too lazy to work out.
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I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
