Alan Autry Quotes
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
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There's no silver bullet. We have to change as we go. The problems aren't going to go away overnight.
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We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
