Rainn Wilson Quotes
I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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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.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
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I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
