Uell Stanley Andersen Quotes
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.
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I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
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There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And there are writers-sometimes the same ones, sometimes not-to whom you are powerfully attracted, for reasons that may or may not have to do with literary values. They speak to you, or speak for you, sometimes with a voice that could almost be your own. Often there is one writer in particular who awakens you, who is the teacher they say you will meet when you are ready for the lesson.
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We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
