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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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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...the question now was...whether that beautiful fabric the English constitution...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.
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How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
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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.
