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  • I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

    FaceBook post by Marina Abramovic from Dec 12, 2013
  • Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

    White   House   President  
    "'He tried his best to veil it, but Obama is an intellectual'" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.
  • People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister.

  • I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

  • I love the Seahawks because of Russell [Wilson] and I think that I'm going to probably go for them!

  • When I think about the idea of Rebel Wilson having to go to the Oscars and not having something amazing to wear that's made for her, it drives me mad.

    Thinking   Ideas   Mad  
    "Clem Wears: Beth Ditto New Collection". Interview with Clementine Desseaux, www.bonjourclem.com. February 15, 2016.
  • Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

  • Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke.

    Baby   Rap   Boys  
  • Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

    Mark Twain (2015). “The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.171, Library of Alexandria
  • I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.

  • If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  • Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them and advised the head of Howard University to create a good law school. And that inspired Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall in their path-breaking work on behalf of desegregation.

    School   Law   Government  
    Source: www.slate.com
  • It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

    War   Tools   World  
    Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.
  • Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.

    Serzh Sargsyan's address to the Conference dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's Arbitral Award, November 23, 2010.
  • I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.

    Beach   Cousin   Brother  
    "Mike Love sets the record straight on Brian Wilson's 'firing'" by Mike Love, articles.latimes.com. October 5, 2012.
  • I’m concerned that if one of those two areas doesn’t play up to par – if they give up some points or they can’t run the football – and it gets stuck on Russell Wilson’s shoulders…if he has to stay in the pocket against good defenses, read coverages, make the right plays, see the field, that’s where I worry.

  • The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.

    Facts   Wilson   Persons  
  • [Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

  • There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

    Matthew Arnold (2016). “Culture and Anarchy”, p.8, BookRix
  • My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

    Father   Military   Army  
  • In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.

    Country   Artist   Female  
  • I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

    Stupid   Shoes   Voice  
  • It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

    Men   Stories   Littles  
    John Updike (1981). “Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run”
  • Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.

  • In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.

    Uncles   School   College  
    "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
  • As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

  • Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

    Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”
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