Walter Wykes Quotes
Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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This will without doubt play into the hands of separatists in Kosovo and Montenegro wanting to leave the (Yugoslav) federation
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
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I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.
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I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
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Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.
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The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. ... Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.
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I don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd.
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There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
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The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.
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It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
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I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.
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We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.
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Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.
