Robert Wilson Quotes
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
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I'm grateful that President Trump is willing to talk about paid leave, but his policy, unfortunately, is woefully inadequate.
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I just love America. I love living here.
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There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.
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On the France's Indochina involvement: 'They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves...France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose.'
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.
