Gene Wilder Quotes
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.
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Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.
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I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.
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Being different gives the world color.
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My wife and I water color, paint water colors.
