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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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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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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There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.
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What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
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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.
