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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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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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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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
