Alfred A. Montapert Quotes
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
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'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
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Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.
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Your whole life is changed with that first child. Your social behaviors are all turned upside down, you're sleep deprived, but eight months in, my son had this seizure, and it just woke me up to the idea that, oh, no, this can end. And it can end in a way that will destroy you forever.
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My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
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Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.
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To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
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The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.
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Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.
