F. Paul Wilson Quotes
True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
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The dualistic philosophy reigned supreme in Europe, dominating the development of Western science. But with the advent of atomic physics, findings based on demonstrable experiment were seen to negate the dualistic theory, and the trend of thought since then has been back to the monistic conception of the ancient Taoists.
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I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.
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Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.
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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.
