Robert Woodrow Wilson Quotes
I spend many evenings reading or continuing the day's work, but I also enjoy playing the piano, jogging, and traveling with the family.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
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I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.
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I spend many evenings reading or continuing the day's work, but I also enjoy playing the piano, jogging, and traveling with the family.
