Alan Wilson Quotes

Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

Alan Wilson

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• If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Prophet
  • Biblical

• I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Movie

• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Water
  • Film
  • Years

• It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Action
  • Best
  • Brain

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • May
  • True

• I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Remember

• You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Confident

• While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • Great
  • Eyes

• If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Strong
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• I train to fight, to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Train

• Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Way
  • Always
  • Rebellion

• When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Desire
  • Survive
  • Helped

• I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Way
  • Me
  • Act

• Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • America
  • High

• Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Sad

• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

  

  David L. Katz
  • People
  • War
  • Humanity

• If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Career

• I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Up
  • Mind
  • History

• It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

  

  George Dennison Prentice
  • Face
  • Back
  • Please

• I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Way
  • Solo Guy
  • Showing Off

• Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

  

  Alan Wilson