Wonder Quotes - Page 32

• Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood."

  Ben Rosenfield

  Funny, Night, Sight

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• We are just entering what may be called, 'the field of vibrations', a field in which we may find more wonders than the mind can conceive of

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Mind, Entering, May

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• It's no wonder the White House is delaying release of the latest dismal budget figures. It's not just that they are grossly more dismal than the projections. It's that they will undercut already-waning public support for Obama's socialized medicine scheme.

  David Limbaugh

  White, Medicine, House

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• When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do this, it would be so that future generations - my kids or my sister's kids - would grow up seeing themselves in their media culture in a way that I didn't. If The Mindy Project or Master of None were on when I was growing up, I wonder if I would be interested in doing this at all

  Meera Menon

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

  Frank Gehry

  Deny, Alienation, Dissatisfaction

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, Missing, Today

  "90-year-old Disney Legend’s Secret To Marrying A (Much) Younger Woman". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com.sg. October 3, 2016.

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• I heard someone the other day who said 'How can Colin Kaepernick lead this because he's mixed and he was raised by adoptive White parents. I wonder if those people feel the same way about President [Barack] Obama.

  Ed Gordon

  White, People, Parent

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

  Bill Burton

  Order, Doe, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order properly to satisfy our curiosity we will inevitably rely on one or more of them. So, either we squelch our curiosity or we will have to fall into the circularity or regress to which the skeptic objects.

  Ernest Sosa

  Fall, Order, Curiosity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Optimistic, America

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.

  Curtis Hanson

  Boys, Different, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.

  Curtis Hanson

  Struggle, Character, Independent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.

  Curtis Hanson

  Character, Boys, Pittsburgh

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.

  Curtis Hanson

  Moving, Boys, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.

  Curtis Hanson

  Character, Boys, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.

  Curtis Hanson

  Character, Boys, Special

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I very much had wanted to do a picture with more humor than what I had been allowed to do earlier, which is what attracted me to Wonder Boys so much. I found it funny in a very serious way, which is the best kind of comedy.

  Curtis Hanson

  Boys, Way, Serious

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Culture, Littles, Tribes

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the way it jazzes people up, in the way it makes junkies out of us - junkies who need a constant stimulation, more information, more bells and whistles, more electronic wonders in order not to be bored.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Technology, Order, People

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• If you are watching my films and wondering, am I missing humorous speak because I'm not Korean? Am I missing out? You don't have to worry, because you're only missing probably about a few cents worth out of your ticket price.

  Park Chan-wook

  Humorous, Worry, Missing

  "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 25, 2016.

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• [Hillary Clinton] telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting - no wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, Isis, Enemy

  Source: time.com

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• When you look at what's happening in Mexico, a friend of mine who builds plants said it's the eighth wonder of the world. They're building some of the biggest plants anywhere in the world, some of the most sophisticated, some of the best plants. With the United States, as he said, not so much.

  Donald Trump

  United States, Looks, Mexico

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?

  Scott Hall

  Addiction, Bars, Done

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• In most of the USA, the three largest health insurance companies in each state control 80 percent of the market. No wonder premiums are going up.

  Hillary Clinton

  Usa, Three, States

  Source: time.com

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• I can't stand VPL, visible panty line. So I'm wondering how many other people out there are wearing thongs.

  Cassandra Peterson

  People, Lines, Thongs

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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