Gene Wilder Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I was a tomboy.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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I'm totally myself.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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In the metal world, if you're using a wireless mic... I was so scared to do that. I'm, like, 'They're gonna boo me in the beginning.'
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No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for.
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Since therefore, as well those degrees of heat that are not painful, as those that are, can exist in a thinking substance; may we not conclude that external bodies are absolutely incapable of any degree of heat whatsoever?
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
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I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.
