Alejandro Ghersi (Arca) Quotes
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.
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Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.
