William R. Alger Quotes
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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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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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.
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The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
