George C. Wolfe Quotes
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.
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I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.
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The margin between success and drama is fractional.
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
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I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.
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Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.
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This town is diverse as shit. I like it here a lot.
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Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.
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More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.
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Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
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I have to allow his judgment. He felt like he could do that at that time.
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Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.
