Bill Alexander Quotes
The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
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I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.
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The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.
