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Douglas Wilson Quotes

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 4, 1964

Topics

Beginning Finding Being Something

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

Good Parents Kid Wanted Please

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

Alphonso Jackson

Home Ownership You Country Know

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Time Cultures See I See Every

Bob Gates is really emblematic of the modern CIA. He joins it in 1968, just a day before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And, of course, he rises very quickly. In less than six years, he's on the National Security Council staff, at the closing weeks of Richard Nixon's presidency and then on into Gerald Ford.

Day Security Closing Presidency Just

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

Rosemary Mahoney

Time Money Experience New York Stop

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

Great People Want Things Decent

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Age Specialization Theater Ludicrous

I still have to audition for most things.

Things Still Audition Most

I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

Beautiful Me Crazy World Interesting

I'm not sure a lot of companies know their story, or can explain why they exist and who they are, without just spewing just corporate speech.

Story Speech Know Why Explain Sure

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Learning Car Book Remember Stop Up

I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.

Gratitude Time I Am Debt Will Never

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