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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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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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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Arkansas is really, really nice. It's got the nature feel.
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So many people say they went to school on 'The Larry Sanders Show.'
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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On the film sets of 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I feel safe. It's like you're in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.
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Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
