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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My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.
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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.
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It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.
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I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
