Bill Alexander Quotes
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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We're still talking about women's rights. We can't be the greatest country in the world. I think once we lose that illusionary veil of thinking that we are, we can face the problems and really try to fix them.
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The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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The best money I made was panhandling.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
