B. Alan Wallace Quotes
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
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I just loved stand-up comics as a kid. I'd watch them on 'The Tonight Show,' and I thought what a great craft it was to come out on stage with no instrument or anything and be able to entertain people.
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
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But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats,Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats.
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Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.
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Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
