N.D. Wilson Quotes
Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Today the Republican Party attracts neither the farmer nor the industrial worker. Why not? To represent the people one must know them. Lincoln did. The Republican Party leadership does not. The greatest praise I can give Lincoln on this his anniversary is to say he would be ashamed of his party's leadership today.
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We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
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I am going to be doing some practicing on Thursday and Friday and we run some qualifying heats on Saturday, ... I've wanted to do this for a while. I wanted to have a good car when we did it. I think we've got a good car.
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The thematic core of 'X-Men' is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way, whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized - it can go the whole spectrum - but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider - and X-Men are outsiders.
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Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
