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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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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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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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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.
