James Wolk Quotes
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
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People can argue about the pluses and minuses of marijuana, but everyone knows it’s not a killer drug like heroin.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
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In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.
