William R. Alger Quotes
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
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The power suit is over.
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One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.
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At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
