Malcolm Wilson Quotes
I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
Quotes to Explore
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Imperfection is perfection.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the Gulf region and that of the Indian subcontinent are interlinked. Bilateral security cooperation between India and Saudi Arabia will contribute to regional stability and in addressing the common threat of terrorism in the region.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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It’s that having haters somehow induces everyone else to want you more. People not liking you somehow brings you more attention entirely on its own.
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
