Alan Bock Quotes
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.
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The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.
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I don't believe in happy endings.
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I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.
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Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
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The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.
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I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.
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Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
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If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
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Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.
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Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.
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Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. 1
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I got a rent-stabilized apartment in 1977, and that has made my life as an actor possible.
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The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.
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We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.
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