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.
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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.
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'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.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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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.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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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.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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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.
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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
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I'll keep going till my face falls off.
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It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.
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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.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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One of my uncles played in The Isleys. I went to all their shows.
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I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.
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My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
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When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.
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When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.
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How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.
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My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
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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.
