AJ McLean (Alexander James McLean) Quotes
I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.
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I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
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Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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My mouth ain't no prayer book.
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Cultural essentialism is, thus, intimately tied to power relations. Fixity, homogeneity and separateness are prioritised within an essentialist framework. Therefore, part of any effort to resist essentialism is recognising diversity within difference, contingency, mutability and connectedness.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
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I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.
