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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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.
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The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.
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We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
