Zacharia Wahls Quotes
The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
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While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.
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The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
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The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.
