Alan Bersin Quotes
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.
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I write a world where everyone is partly right.
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My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
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As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
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The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
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Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.
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In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
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I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American.
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There's a lot of little 'Bonnie-isms' in 'Teenage Dream' that I was hoping to keep for myself.
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I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.
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I'm nearly see-through. Like a jellyfish.
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Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.
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With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable.
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Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.
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Alan Bersin
