AJ McLean (Alexander James McLean) Quotes
I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
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My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
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I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.
