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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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
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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At a time when this country needs a good military, the last thing we need to be doing is turning out of our military of people who served and then bringing in people who are illegally in the country.
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Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.
