Gene Wolfe Quotes
Whenever a man and a woman come to words or blows, fools are quick to attribute it to the differences between the sexes. The sexes differ much less than they wish to believe, and such differences as are real tend less to promote strife than to prevent it.
Quotes to Explore
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.
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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
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Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
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I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.
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Whenever a man and a woman come to words or blows, fools are quick to attribute it to the differences between the sexes. The sexes differ much less than they wish to believe, and such differences as are real tend less to promote strife than to prevent it.
