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William Julius Wilson Quotes

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

William Julius Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 20, 1935

Topics

Work Family Organization Crime Low

I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Great Moment Me Better Rise Know

A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.

Tree Animal Landscape You Will See

Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.

Time School Doing Never Anything

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

Life Brother Sister Worth More Than

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

Good Experience People Cool You Run

Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.

Good People Good People Feel Crisis

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Work Money Eye Egg You Actor

It's very clear to users, more clear than in other apps, that Foursquare is an app for search and discovery, and we're very good at delivering you a social map that will show you friends' faces on the map and things that you might like.

Good Search Friends You Discovery

Sports were never my thing.

Sports Never Were Thing

I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.

Winthrop Rockefeller

Money Values Satisfaction Personal

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Faith Rain Fire Church Will Must

In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims were €20m in March 2010 but Quinn Direct had more business in the U.K. than in Ireland.

Business March More Cash Outstanding

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