Alex Lawther Quotes
We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
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I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
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Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.
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I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.
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Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.
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We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.
