C.L. Wilson Quotes
“Hope was a fragile flicker that he wanted to cup with both hands to protect against the harsh winds of reality.”
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set up by Shell Research Ltd.
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Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.
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When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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The dream of my family was for me to be an educated person.
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“Hope was a fragile flicker that he wanted to cup with both hands to protect against the harsh winds of reality.”
