Wyndham Lewis Quotes
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you're putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
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There was never a shred, never a hint, never a possibility - not a remote, not a million-, not a billion-to-one possibility - I could have planted anything. Nor would I have a reason to.
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
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Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.
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I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.
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The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.
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I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write.
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My goal is to stay in good health, and every day, I wake up and pray that I do.
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I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.
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If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
