Wilfred Funk Quotes
The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You've no control over those things, so in a way, it's wasted energy to think of them.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
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'And we jolly green giants cuz we smoke so much broccoli'
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Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.
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I went from unknown to having no anonymity.
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If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.
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I don't really like to go out that much. But when I do, I go to the movies, just hang out with friends. I go on Skype and iChat and just chill.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
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The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
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The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
