William R. Alger Quotes
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
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I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'
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I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on.
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
