Gene Wilder Quotes
When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
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Surprisingly I've never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI Joe in the mud, and took it home and I was like, "I got a GI Joe!" And then my great grandmother was like, "You stole that." I said, "What are you talking about?" and she said, "That's not yours." I'm like, "But I found it!" She's like, "But it's not yours, and therefore you stole it." So I just went and put it right back in the mud where I found it.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
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There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
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When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.
