Paul Allen Quotes
Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I am a just man.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
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You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
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You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln and you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.
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The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.
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I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.
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Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.
