Josiah Alexander Sila (Joey Alexander) Quotes

When I'm in stage, I never plan, you know, 'I'm going to do this.' But of course, you have a concept what you're going to do. But you don't really plan it.

Josiah Alexander Sila

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• Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

  

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• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

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• I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

  

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• I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

  

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• I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.

  

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• Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

  

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• I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.

  

  Odette Annable
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• If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  

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• I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

  

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• In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

  

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• There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.

  

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• But don't worry... only yours is right.

  

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• A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

  

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• It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,And times and things, as in that vision, seemKeeping along it their eternal stands.

  

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• An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

  

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• Persuasion's flowing well.

  

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• A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

  

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• Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

  

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• Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

  

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• Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

  

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• You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

  

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• If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

  

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• When I'm in stage, I never plan, you know, 'I'm going to do this.' But of course, you have a concept what you're going to do. But you don't really plan it.

  

  Josiah Alexander Sila