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James Wolcott Quotes

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: December 10, 1952

Topics

Fight Believe You Others One Thing

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Child Growing Up World Think End

I enjoy singing.

I am just a thorn in everybody's side.

I Am Side Thorn Just Everybody Am

Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?'

Dress Blue Me Black You White

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Success Failure Director Shoulders

Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country.

People American Citizenship Country

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Job College Thinking Real Get Kept

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Tradition Long Cooperation Laboratory

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

Challenge Design Learn Finding You

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Myself Training Win Start Learn Got

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

Knowledge Science End Unhappy Hands

I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.

Best View Mars Seen Like Ever

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