Rainn Wilson Quotes

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

Rainn Wilson

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• It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Healthy
  • Three
  • Big

• Politics is the art of the possible.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Possible

• I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Money
  • Education
  • Programs

• Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Win

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Long
  • Family
  • Money

• Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Live
  • Me
  • Difference

• Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Believe
  • Starting

• I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.

  

  Major Owens
  • Long
  • Business
  • Pressure

• I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Real
  • Love
  • Gold

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Will

• I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Up
  • War
  • Father

• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Young

• Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Good
  • Anger

• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Small
  • Always
  • Snake

• I always get stopped by security and immigration, telling me, 'Tell me who the terrorist is, or we won't stamp your passport!' The last time that somebody did that to me - at LAX, actually - I was like, 'Hey, don't ever ask a brown girl that in an American airport!'

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Time
  • American
  • Girl

• Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • God
  • Children

• My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Stop
  • Always
  • Waiting