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 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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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
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My father is an amazing person.
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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
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In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.
