D. Harlan Wilson Quotes
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.
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Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there are 20 cable networks and so many ways for films to be exhibited. It's an exciting time for actors, writers, directors, and producers.
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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
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There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.
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Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.
