Wesley Willis Quotes
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
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Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
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Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.
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There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
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I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!
