John Alec Baker Quotes
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'
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This is a broad thought, but loving yourself and having the support so that you can love yourself is the most important thing that young people in Chicago can get.
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Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.
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Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.
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Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
