Stewart Alsop Quotes
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
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I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.
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Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
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What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.
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When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.
