Robert Wilkie Quotes
I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
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And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
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Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
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I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.
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I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
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Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.
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There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.
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I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.
