William R. Alger Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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Excellence always sells.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I guess I'm a workaholic!
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Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
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One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
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We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
