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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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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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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Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see - but the catchphrases.
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How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
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In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what.
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Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.
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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.
