John Edgar Wideman Quotes

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

John Edgar Wideman

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
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• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  

  R. Kelly
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• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
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• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  

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• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

  Kara Hayward
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• All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

  

  Sai Baba
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• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

  Kate Moss
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• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

  Adam Hochschild
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• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

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• I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

  

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• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

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• As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.

  

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• I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.

  

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• One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.

  

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• The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.

  

  Caroll Spinney
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• I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.

  

  Shailene Woodley
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• I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Desire