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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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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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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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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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I've never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I've been holding onto for years.
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School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.
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When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.
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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.”
