Alan Charles Korsun Quotes
Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.
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You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
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I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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Human life is too difficult for people.
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After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
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Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.
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Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone.
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Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.
