William R. Alger Quotes
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
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I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.
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During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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I can talk to execs very clearly, very plainly. I don't get nervous in front of them anymore.
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
