Wesley Willis Quotes
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.
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I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.
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You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
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But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.
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I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.
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I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn't hurt, and you learn from it.
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Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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Wyoming is good, but Montana is like heaven on earth.
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When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.
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And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
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You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.
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People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.
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Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
