Steve Alford (Stephen Todd Alford) Quotes
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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My mother is still battling alcoholism.
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I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, and possibilities that transport both reader and writer away from reality for a while - it's such delicious fun!
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It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
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I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.
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I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
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If you criticize others, they don't dare to hurt you. If you are perfect, nobody can criticize you.
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My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.
