Tom Wolfe
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They think it is too blunt, but when you don't... MISSY ELLIOTT TREVOR NOAH NAOMI JUDD HARRY STYLES One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are fun... GLENN HOWERTON I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost ... JAMIE BELL PAT RILEY GREG BEHRENDT TOM WAITS If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want ... BENNIE THOMPSON I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH GARY COLEMAN MARILYN MANSON ALFONSO CUARON COLIN POWELL The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don&#... BEN FOLDS TAYE DIGGS LI KEQIANG My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in ears... ICE CUBE DARLENE LOVE CHARLES DE LINT If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It&... CAROL BARTZ GAIL COLLINS Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language t... LOU RAWLS You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to. MINK STOLE I was lucky. A lot of people have that. People that don't tell you what you want to hear, but wh... KEVIN LOVE ANNIE PARISSE I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories. CARRIE COON I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've ... JOEL SCHUMACHER I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI AI WEIWEI People look at me and keep walking - but you can tell they know who I am. I want them to bug me. It&... SCHOOLBOY Q As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If... DAN SHECHTMAN I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with yo... GABRIEL IGLESIAS DOUGLAS ADAMS BARTON GELLMAN When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know... DAN ROSENSWEIG ERIC SCHMIDT SYLVIA BROWNE I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes t... KEVIN PLANK IAN MCKELLEN KIRSTEN DUNST Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to... MARK MCGRATH GEORGE S. PATTON The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them. ALEC ISSIGONIS The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and ... CHARLES S. DUTTON I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mi... NEKO CASE When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the... CASS ELLIOT SUE TOWNSEND PEGGY NOONAN IRWIN WINKLER I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that ar... PATTI LUPONE Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don&... MYRTLE REED I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want t... AARON TVEIT DAVID CROSBY RANDA HAINES I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselv... BILL KREUTZMANN TED RALL ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor tha... CARROLL BAKER You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree... RAFIK HARIRI HEIDI KLUM WARREN SPECTOR Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - th... JULIE KLAUSNER ADAM GRANT I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the rig... BEN ELLIOT JUSTIN TRUDEAU IRA SACHS The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhi... ROBERTO AGUIRE I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their s... ALAN VEGA When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor. ADAM RAPP TAMARA MELLON THOMAS MALLON If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat... JAMES SINEGAL BORIS PASTERNAK CINDY SHERMAN SOPHIA LOREN LIAM GALLAGHER NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON EDDIE VEDDER OGDEN NASH IGGY AZALEA
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WHITNEY WOLFE Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get ther... WHITNEY WOLFE If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering h... NATHAN WOLFE The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more ... NATHAN WOLFE If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you ge... NATHAN WOLFE Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've di... NATHAN WOLFE Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matt... NATHAN WOLFE About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've e... NATHAN WOLFE We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that... 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NATHAN WOLFE Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it'... NATHAN WOLFE We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, bu... NATHAN WOLFE As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. NATHAN WOLFE Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people ... NATHAN WOLFE We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV f... NATHAN WOLFE If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outwei... NATHAN WOLFE If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their tim... NATHAN WOLFE When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When... 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