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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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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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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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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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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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
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Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.
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Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.
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It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.
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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.”
