Christopher John Wilson (C. J. Wilson) Quotes
You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
Garry Shandling
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
Abhishek Bachchan
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
Jack Ramsay
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
Zubin Mehta
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Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
Carice van Houten
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
Patrick Lencioni
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
J. R. Moehringer
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My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
Tahj Mowry
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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
Jackie Robinson
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It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
Bebe Rexha
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You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
Foster Friess
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Narendra Modi
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Today we're going to try and say his name...OH! OHHH! Can you even say a part of his name-OH! OHHH!'
Sam Kinison
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.
Wallace Stevens
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Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
Ben Jonson
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
A. E. Housman
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The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
Satish Kumar
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I had one date in high school - that was it, and he didn't ask me out again, because I was taller than everybody. I was very gangly and awkward, and I wore weird clothes that I made.
Geena Davis
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I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.
Peter Capaldi
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You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.
Christopher John Wilson