Christopher John Wilson (C. J. Wilson) Quotes
My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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My first drafts are always terrible, and I hate them, but the process for me is all about writing the bad version until it tells you what the good version is. And then you write that.
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I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
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My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.
