Rainn Wilson Quotes
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.
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Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
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Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
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I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.
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I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the economy or even their language, the body or its sensorium, but I could not imagine this, could not even imagine imagining it. And yet when I imagined the total victory of those other things over poetry, when I imagined, with a sinking feeling, a world without even the terrible excuses for poems that kept faith with the virtual possibilities of the medium, without the sort of absurd ritual I'd participated in that evening then I intuited an inestimable loss, a loss not of artworks but of art, and therefore infinite, the total triumph of the actual, and I realized that, in such a world, I would swallow a bottle of white pills.
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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
