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Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

Joseph Wambaugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 22, 1937

Topics

Never Things Screen Get Percent

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Good Myself Believe Universe You

I'd rather look like a hobo and be super comfortable than wear something not comfortable.

Jessie James Decker

Look Comfortable Wear Something Like

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

Science Gift End Mystery Robots Way

America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?

Power World America Would Who How

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

Matthew Stewart

Purpose World You Find Outside Most

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Simon Travaglia

Life Death Things Happen Inevitable

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

Nature Racism Human Nature You Try

I don't care if it's a dollar or two dollars. If I'm governor, people should have skin in the game.

People Game Care Skin Two Dollar

I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.

Mad Nobody Why Write Guy Something

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

Michael Shermer

Science People Doing Checks Checking

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

Name Talking Security True First

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

You Play No Sense Need Sense

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