John Wilkes Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
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Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
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I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.
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My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.
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I'm not a big one on - I don't know what to call it - getting all glamorous. I don't really worry about my looks, and I don't worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn't mean a lot to me.
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That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
