Isiah Whitlock, Jr. Quotes
I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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I'm probably never going to be politically correct because I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician. Because politicians do what is politically expedient - I want to do what's right.
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
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I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.
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Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
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I did two films that have a great following. One is 'Caddyshack,' one is 'Tron.' To tell you the truth, most people don't know that it's me in both films.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
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I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?
