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Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 18, 1932

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Corrupt Everybody Themselves Except

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

Love School Ambition Thought Doing

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Education School Start High School

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Church Feel Want Preach I Feel Like

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

Success Friend Patriotism Support

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

Women Men Waiting Growing Up White

Coming home for me isn't, like, one family dinner. It's about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85?

Family Home Me Dinner Coming Home

People want the Keystone pipeline built all across the country.

People Country Want Built Pipeline

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Performance Timing Everyday Something

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Great Racism Religion Diversity Grow

The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly where you're going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you're constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both.

Work Great Start You Television

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Business Succeed You Look Rules Way

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

Home Parents Growing Up Growing Nice

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