Joe Wilson Quotes

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

Joe Wilson

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human Nature

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Things
  • Loved
  • Spider-Man

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Chinese
  • Transformation

• It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Made

• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Winning

• I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Water

• There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Death
  • Freedom

• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  

  Burleigh Grimes
  • Kids
  • Guy
  • Kind

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Time
  • Work
  • Father

• When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

  

  Joe Wilson
  • Kids
  • War
  • Die