Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes

If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.

Ernest Dion Wilson

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Worse
  • Active

• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Nothing

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
  • Problems

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • True
  • Hold

• Love is a state of being.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Love
  • Being
  • Love Is

• I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Respect

• I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • The Right Thing

• The jests of the rich are ever successful.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Successful
  • Rich
  • Ever

• When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Enough
  • Year

• I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Stage
  • Laugh
  • Anger

• My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Children
  • Rest

• There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart

• People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • People
  • Why
  • Crazy

• We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Children
  • Money

• There's part of me that would love to wear a ruffly collar and do a period drama, but that's not going to happen. You don't have Asians in those sorts of things.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Drama
  • Period

• It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.

  

  John Buchan
  • Time
  • Happy

• I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Funny

• No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Perspective

• Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Perspective
  • Books
  • Journal

• If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Perspective
  • Acts
  • Teenagers