Alain J. P. Belda Quotes
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
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I love running and I will always run.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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There's only one secret to bachelor cooking - not caring how it tastes.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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Although we all make mistakes in life, the problems occur when we try to hide our mistakes, to cover them up rather than to learn from them and allow other people to learn from them.
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
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To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.
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I want people to get to know me, because I want to get to know them.
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I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
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If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
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We are focused on managing what is under our control.
