Charles E. Wilson Quotes
The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
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Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.
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Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.
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CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.
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Now people are coming up to meet me at my shows and they're doing my bits! One guy earlier was at 7-11 and he comes up to me and goes "you want a falcon?".
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Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.
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The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
