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 never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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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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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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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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Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.
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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.
