Rainn Wilson Quotes

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• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Things
  • Easy
  • Talk

• I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Time
  • World
  • American

• As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Child
  • Story
  • Logic

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • People
  • You
  • Travel

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Beautiful
  • Disappointment
  • Beautiful Woman

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Food
  • Young

• Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Me

• Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • College
  • Mom

• I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Care

• My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

  

  Vanna White
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Homework

• I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Enough
  • Individual
  • Social Change

• If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

  

  James Gray
  • True

• Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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