William Alexander (Bill Alexander (painter)) Quotes
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.
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In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
