James Wolcott Quotes
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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It's different, it's weird to say, 'She's a white rapper or she can't do this because she's this color - this color does this thing. These are the boxes we have, this is what it is, don't try to change it.' And it's crazy to me because I'm just not from that world, so I can't really rock with it all the way.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
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I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother.
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In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
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I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.
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To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.
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All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
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With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.
