James Woolsey Quotes
As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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So not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood.
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It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.
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When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
