Alan Carrun Quotes
'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.
Quotes to Explore
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
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I don't think it's fair that we cannot guarantee every child in this country a great education and that, in New York City, in some cases, your child is at risk in some part because of the policies the union endorses.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
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If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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Even miracles take a little time.
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No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?
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In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.
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My parents have worked their asses off their whole entire lives, they still do, and I never felt like anything would be handed to me. I never felt sorry for myself. I felt like, "Wow, this is incredible. I'm able to do this for myself." I think once you have that sense of empowerment at a young age and you allow your children to have that empowerment, it will fuel them for a lifetime.
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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
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Hidan: Hey, look at that, it's my headband! You went to the trouble of picking it up and keeping for me? I'm touched. You're a pretty nice guy, Kakuzu, you knwo that? Kakuzu: Shut up. Let's go. Hidan: Let me put it on at least! Okay, I'm coming. Admit it, you like me a little, doncha? Kakuzu: Either you shut up, or I'll kill you. Hidan: Haha, you're embarrassed! I understand.
