Evan Wright Quotes

For the first time in history, drug addicts and drunks—once viewed as human wreckage that drained families and society of resources—had become valuable properties. People could make fortunes off them.

Evan Wright

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• I still keep my accent.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Keep
  • Still
  • Accent

• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Power
  • Society

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Graduation

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Car
  • Favorite

• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Problem
  • Very

• I want people to tell me the truth.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• 'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Age
  • Black

• I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Car

• The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • English
  • White
  • Independence

• Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • You
  • Will

• Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.

  

  Basil Bunting

• President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Long

• I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

  

  Kenzo Tange
  • Thinking

• You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • History
  • Past
  • You

• Political philosophy was concerned with the best or just order of society which is by nature best or just everywhere or always, while politics is concerned with the being and well-being of this or that particular society (a polis, a nation, an empire) that is in being at a given place for some time.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Society

• But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • God
  • Men
  • History

• For the first time in history, drug addicts and drunks—once viewed as human wreckage that drained families and society of resources—had become valuable properties. People could make fortunes off them.

  

  Evan Wright
  • History
  • Society
  • Families