Alan Wolfe Quotes

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

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• My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sister

• The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Enough
  • Speak
  • One Word

• Turning 18 is a big deal.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Deal
  • Big
  • Big Deal

• Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Immigration

• I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Happen
  • Dialogue

• I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Serious

• Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Conflict
  • Pursuit

• It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Weird

• China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • China

• As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Trust
  • Doubt
  • Horse

• I'm a very boring person.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Person
  • Very
  • Boring

• It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Same

• My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

  

  T-Pain
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Voice

• I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Great
  • Fashion

• Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Poor

• I know that song writing is probably the most mystical of the things that I do, in a sense that I'm not sure where it came from or how it started. It's something that I just knew how to do. It's something that just happens.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Writing
  • Song
  • I Know

• God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Jesus

• Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects because Iran was developing, and I felt we shouldn't destroy the past and copy completely the West, which is the problem in developing countries.

  

  Farah Pahlavi
  • Past

• I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Die
  • Fall
  • Rest

• When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • America
  • Argument
  • Move

• Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Used
  • Weapons
  • Capitalism

• Cisgender actors don't take trans roles out of malice. I think it's just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people play transgender characters because we don't see the same issue with sexuality.

  

  Nicole Maines
  • Characters
  • Issue
  • Sexuality

• We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

  

  Alan Wolfe
  • Used
  • Move
  • Issue