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Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Robert Anton Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Not Perfect Perfect Ancestors Even

I find it reprehensible that anyone would seek to denigrate the legacy of Dr. King in any way.

King Legacy Find Way Seek Would

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

Work Succeed America You Back Go

For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it's a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn't look like you're watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.

Character People Me Crazy Comedy

I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his work from 'Don't Look Now' and 'Eureka.' So I was very excited to work with him. The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.

Anjelica Huston

Work Story Loved Fairy Tale Look

In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

Business Focus Performance View Year

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

College Crazy Black Thought Doing

I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.

History Time Together Husband Warm

I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

Myself Farm You Down Go Never

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Leadership Time Do The Right Thing

You can't help but be in a good mood around Blake Shelton. I felt like I always knew him even though I was just meeting him; it was like he had been a part of my life forever.

Life Good My Life Help You Meeting

Players come and go, and that goes for coaches as well.

Come And Go Go Well Players Come

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

Success Yourself Disappointment World

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