William R. Alger Quotes
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Imagination rules the world.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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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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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
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To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.
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Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.
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I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.
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I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
