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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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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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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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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Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.
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Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
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I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.
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I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week.
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I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
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L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au coeur.
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My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.
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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.
