Al Berto Quotes
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
Quotes to Explore
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
