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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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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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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Each instant of life is a step toward death.
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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
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I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.
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I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.
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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.
