Herb Alpert Quotes
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
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I'm just going with the flow. I'm in the process, I'm on the path. I'm really working towards all of my goals and music is definitely on the way.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
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Instrumental music can spread the international language.
