William Julius Wilson Quotes

If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

William Julius Wilson

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WorkChangeTimePeopleBehavior

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Jim Bridenstine

PeopleControlMeetingsSayOpen

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Joe Eszterhas

ThoughtPlacesMissHolyDrinking

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

Joe Wurzelbacher

MoneyStand UpStandEnoughSayUp

I am happy that I can challenge myself in various fields.

Andra Day

MyselfChallengeI AmHappyI Can

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

Sue Grafton

BlueLawyerNeverSheCollarKinsey

Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them.

Steven Van Zandt

LifePersonAfraidSuccessfulNeeds

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Simon Newcomb

ScienceHistoryGreatSimpleStart

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

Rob Manuel

GoodTimeSimpleStupidGameDesign

I put myself into character for my songs.

Michelle Branch

CharacterMyselfSongsPut

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.

Monica Johnson

GodFreedomDemocracyForgetVote

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Mira Nair

CommunicationKnowledgeUnderstanding

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

Jonathan King

SadMeAgainstGuardianShowMade

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