C.L. Wilson Quotes
“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
Quotes to Explore
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.
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I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
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I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.
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God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
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The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.
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“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
