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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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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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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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
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I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
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Everyone was telling me you have this great potential and you can be on top. I didn't believe that, but everyone was just telling me to believe in myself. I did and I'm kind of up on top and it's amazing.
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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
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We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.
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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.
