Alfred A. Montapert Quotes
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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On the contrary, to educate rational people, that should be sufficient; it is not really intended for sensible people; to understand things and conditions, there is the matter ended,-to understand oneself does not seem to be everyman's concern.
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I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
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It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.
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Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
