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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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
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The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
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A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.
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Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.
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Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.
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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.
