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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Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.
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That's the problem: when you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to because I'm so movied out, right? I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is, with the little spare time that I have, is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.
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Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.
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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.
