Jason Alexander Quotes
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
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You know it's not "you have to see it to believe it" - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country.
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This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.
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We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
