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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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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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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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.
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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
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If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.
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When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
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Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
