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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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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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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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
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I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.
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They say the doctors and the nurses are least likely to catch the epidemic. If you have a friend who is dishonest or impure, the surest way to save yourself from him is to try to save him.
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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
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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.