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.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• 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.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Know

• The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

  

  Edmund White
  • Like
  • Always
  • Driver

• When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Song
  • Will
  • Wants

• I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Back
  • Go

• 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.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wall

• 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.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Blood

• Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Against

• 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.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• My mouth ain't no prayer book.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Book
  • Prayer

• 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.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Effort
  • Diversity

• Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Friend

• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Existence
  • Eternal
  • Illusory

• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

  

  Aristotle
  • Popular
  • Simplicity
  • Educated

• Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Dance

• The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers
  • Great
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  AJ McLean