Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.

Daniel H. Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1978

Topics

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If I'm going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can't just order you to do it.

Jocko Willink

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President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

John O. Brennan

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There have been great champions in every generation.

Andy Roddick

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Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

Simon McBurney

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Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

Rupert Murdoch

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I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

Martin Parr

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You can't go backward in life.

Jordan Peterson

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Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.

Dominic Holland

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Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

Colleen Atwood

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Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair before I knew who Ric Flair was. This was before cable TV or any of that, and Tully was our Ric Flair.

Shawn Michaels

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I really love horror novels, horror films, that are pointing at deeper ideas and thematic meaning. It's a way of thinking about films differently; that's what I think I like the most about it. I love the fact that's it's pointing at a more mysterious world - that the world is more of a mysterious place than we tend to let ourselves believe.

Scott Derrickson

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Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

Richard Rodgers

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