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.

John Wilkes

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  • Authority
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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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• 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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• There is more evidence to prove that saltness of the sea is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.

  

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  • Water
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• It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

  

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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