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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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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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 am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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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 don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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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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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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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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What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.
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I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Only by a process of peaceful evolution can China accomplish its own goals of being a free, prosperous, and strong country.
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I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.
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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.
