Al Attles Quotes
He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew of a good player in this town or that town.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
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I take Epsom salt baths.
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It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
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God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.
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I love New York. New York is busy. It's dirty. It's smelly. I'm a real urban animal: I love cities. I like being in the middle of it all.
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I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.
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I like all of McClure's pickles, but my personal favorites are the spicy ones.
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
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I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.
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I've never liked my smile, you see. I should have had braces as a kid, but I was too proud and too vain. And I didn't want to be bullied at school.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew of a good player in this town or that town.
