John Wilkes Quotes

We've patched some roofs, cut a lot of trees and cleared roads, and we've given out a lot of food and water and ice.

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• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

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• I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.

  

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• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

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• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

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• I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

  

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• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

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• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

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• We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation.

  

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• My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.

  

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• We've patched some roofs, cut a lot of trees and cleared roads, and we've given out a lot of food and water and ice.

  

  John Wilkes
  • Food
  • Water
  • Given