Chloe Wise Quotes
In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.
Quotes to Explore
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct - the book. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the other versions, and I always do.
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I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
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He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.
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In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.
