Al MacInnis Quotes
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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I live, to get out of what I live through.
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What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones
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You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
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All you have to do is be able to feel.
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If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
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I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
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All stress comes from resisting what is.
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I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.
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In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
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Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
