Gene Wilder Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'
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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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Self-love seems so often unrequited.
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I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.
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My story has been the story of my generation.
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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
