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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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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By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
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My voice is stronger today than ever.
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Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
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God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).
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I know how fortunate I am.
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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
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I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.
