Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Joseph Wambaugh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RiverPeopleStandBackDownWall

The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.

Jimmy Cliff

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I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

Jim Barksdale

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Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

Robert Mondavi

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Contrary to far too popular a belief, style, fashion, and fabulousness are not synonymous with stank, haughty, and self-aggrandizing.

Amanda Seales

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As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

Tommy Wiseau

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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

Robert Trout

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We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

Michael Stipe

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It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.

Jordan Peele

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What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.

Diane Warren

MusicSimplePeopleMeWake UpUp

I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.

Denis Leary

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If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

Donald E. Westlake

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I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

Bruce Willis

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