William Julius Wilson Quotes
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.
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When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.
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You can have your opinions, and you can share them with your friends, but why would you go online to tell a stranger something random about their appearance? I don't get that.
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I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.
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I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.
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Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
