F. Paul Wilson Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.
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I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.
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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
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War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
