Rainn Wilson Quotes

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

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• I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Couple

• I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Enjoy
  • Holiday
  • Shopping

• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Question
  • Moral

• I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Chocolate

• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • Thought

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Know
  • Security
  • Front

• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Next
  • Landscape
  • Extinction

• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Virtue
  • Everyone

• The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Creativity
  • Just
  • Motherhood

• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • Stand

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtues
  • Modesty
  • Seldom

• I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Sister

• I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother

• I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Dance
  • Ballet

• On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • People
  • Live
  • Band

• I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

  

  John Niven
  • Time
  • Music
  • Value

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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  • Music