William Julius Wilson Quotes
My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.
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I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.
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My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.
