Chip Wilson (Dennis J. "Chip" Wilson) Quotes
I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't answer- because I had no direction. When I got clear on exactly where I wanted to go, and set the goals to get there, my mind calmed down.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
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When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
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Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.
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I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
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After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.
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I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't answer- because I had no direction. When I got clear on exactly where I wanted to go, and set the goals to get there, my mind calmed down.
