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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It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
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My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
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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.
