Wilson Follett Quotes
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.
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I think theater is a core need of a community.
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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.
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Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That's what Congress has come to.
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Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
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The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
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The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.
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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
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I don't think a player like Messi is a selfish player.
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One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
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The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.
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But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
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When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.
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My anxiety comes from people watching me more and knowing more about me. But the feeling of entering a room where you don’t know anyone but you feel like everyone’s talking about you, that alone is. It’s like getting on a train and not knowing if someone’s trying to take a sneaky picture.
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Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
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From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.
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The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
