Al B. Sure! (Albert Joseph Brown III) Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
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The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! (Chapter 48 - 'At Encinitas In California')
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
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I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front.
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I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
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My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.
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When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
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It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.
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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
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When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.
