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.
Quotes to Explore
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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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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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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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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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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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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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
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We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
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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.
