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James Q. Wilson Quotes

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

James Q. Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 27, 1931 - March 2, 2012

Topics

New York New Now Left Been Liberals

I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.

Myself Mind Thought Church Never

It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.

Family Business Time Cooking City

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

Failure Past Me Write Fail Sense

I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!

John C. Calhoun

Power War Be True Country Dangerous

In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.

Day Man People Building Nostalgia

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

John Henry Newman

Pain Gentleman Say Never Almost Who

I haven't had a terrible relationship, but I've always been the type in a relationship to give too much and not speak out about problems I had or problems that were bothering me. I just wouldn't stand up for myself in any way if I was upset about something.

Relationship Myself Me Stand Up Way

I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary.

Father Diet You Diabetes Know Eat

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Funny Music People Internet You Why

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

Rules Bend Always Found Ways

As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Now More Obvious Make Twitter Ban

As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

Douglas Alexander

Change Today Want Need Offer

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