Bill Alexander Quotes
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.
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Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.
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Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
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In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
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If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
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The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
