Alan Bersin Quotes

The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

Alan Bersin

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• I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
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• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • World
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• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
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• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
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• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Fear
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• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

  

  Wale
  • Why
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• My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
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• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
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• If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
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• What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu!Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,E a consciência disso!

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.

  

  Luther Burbank
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• I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Nice

• I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Poverty
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• I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • She
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• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Spirit
  • Critical

• The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

  

  David Seabury

• The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Poverty
  • Historical
  • Significant