Rainn Wilson Quotes
Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
