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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  • Mean
  • Style

• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  

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  • Faith
  • Authority
  • Stands

• 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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  • May
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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.

  

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

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Play
  • Best
  • Video Games

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
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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.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
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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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Road
  • Hell
  • Milestones

• 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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  • Science
  • Kid
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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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  • Time
  • Friends
  • High

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

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  • Social
  • Original

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

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

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

  

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

  

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  • Me
  • Silence
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• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

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  • Power
  • Always
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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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  • Feel
  • Body
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• It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

  

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  • Dance
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• There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

  

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  • Money
  • Way

• If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!

  

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • World
  • Daughter

• In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.

  

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  • Father
  • Water
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• I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • Mind
  • Why

• 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