Robert Wilkie Quotes
My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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No one is going to remember a second-place team.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
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I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
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I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
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You shut your mouth,How can you say I go about things the wrong way?I am human and I need to be lovedJust like everybody else does
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Ambitious people are the leaven which raises it into wholesome bread. Without ambitious people the world would never get up. They are busybodies who are about early in the morning, hammering, shouting, and rattling the fire-irons, and rendering it generally impossible for the rest of the house to remain in bed.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
