Wilson Quotes - Page 7

• Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

  Van Morrison

  Love You, Feet, Musical

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• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  Eddie Floyd

  Chance

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• It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

  Julius Streicher

  War, Tools, World

  Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.

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• 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.

  Mike Love

  Beach, Cousin, Brother

  "Mike Love sets the record straight on Brian Wilson's 'firing'" by Mike Love, articles.latimes.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

  Katori Hall

  August, I Can

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• Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

  Robert Harris

  Men, Shows

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• Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Voice, Rays

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• Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'

  Jon Landau

  Decision, Forever, Tape

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• 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.

  Bernie Mac

  Stupid, Shoes, Voice

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• My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

  Bruno Mars

  Dad, Temptation, Groups

  "Life on Mars". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. March 27, 2012.

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• It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and so on. Right after that, the anti-immigration law was passed that remained in place until the 1960s.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Independent, Law

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by Wilson's Red Scare, but it dramatically revived in the 1930s. It spearheaded the social-democratic New-Deal style changes which were beneficial to the country - not sufficient, but beneficial. That could happen again.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Style, Scare

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• [The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Team, Player, Thinking

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• I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

  Paul Laffoley

  School, Worry, Say Anything

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• 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.

  Evan Osnos

  Office, President, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."

  Denzel Washington

  August, Firsts, Fence

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Moving, Mean

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Men, Who I Am

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• When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in a philosophical context. All the great jazz musicians did, too. There was always a sub-context to what they were saying about music even though they would be very down home and earthy. So I started to develop, in addition to my power and ability to simply hear, a way to place myself in a time.

  Wynton Marsalis

  New York, Philosophical, Home

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  World, Stones, Should

  "Vincent D'Onofrio Talks BROKEN HORSES, DAREDEVIL, and JURASSIC WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2015.

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• I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and in everything else, even her anger towards the end.

  Viola Davis

  Kindness, Thinking, August

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

  John McGraw

  Boys, Desire, Necks

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• The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
  Trinity. . . .

  H. L. Mencken

  Support, President, Vacancy

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• I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Education, Time, Teaching

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• Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Men, Air

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.2, eBookIt.com

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