Xabi Alonso Quotes
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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Too clever is dumb.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
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Baseball continues, life continues, and I have to continue to work.
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White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.
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I'm just not a natural teacher.
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How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
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As long as we have the possibility then we still have to fight for it.
