D. Harlan Wilson Quotes
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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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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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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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 so never went through a bad-girl period.
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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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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.
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Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.
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Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.
