Shana Alexander Quotes
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
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Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.
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Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.
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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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Make what you most need to find
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Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.
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I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.
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Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nations vital domestic needs.
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I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.
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Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.
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With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.
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The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
