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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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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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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To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.
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Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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This is the first time in my experience that the governor's office has asked to have someone on the selection committee. But that reflects the administration's interest in state parks.
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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.
