Asa Alonso Allen (A. A. Allen) Quotes
When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.
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I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.
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Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."
