Will Wilkinson Quotes

The impulse to freeze the system, to try to tape all the cracks and staple all the cleavages, to ensure that nobody has to explain to their kid why Christmas this year is going to be a lousy Christmas, that is one of our greatest dangers.

Will Wilkinson

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• The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Fear
  • Alone

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Plain
  • Gimmick

• When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

  

  Valerie June
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Image

• My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Party

• I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • You

• As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • World
  • Different
  • Experience

• I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Keep

• But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Attention
  • Feelings

• All artists are equal when they are themselves.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Artists
  • Equal
  • Themselves

• Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Amazing
  • Kirstie Alley

• I'll keep going till my face falls off.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Face
  • Going
  • Keep Going

• It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Why

• Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.

  

  Patty Smyth
  • Live
  • May

• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Action

• Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

  

  Dennis Brown
  • Rumors

• I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Theatre

• I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Playing
  • Characters
  • Conflict

• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Air
  • Take
  • Sides

• A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Life
  • Lonely

• The impulse to freeze the system, to try to tape all the cracks and staple all the cleavages, to ensure that nobody has to explain to their kid why Christmas this year is going to be a lousy Christmas, that is one of our greatest dangers.

  

  Will Wilkinson
  • Kids
  • Danger
  • Impulse