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 never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.
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The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.
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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.
