Alan Charles Korsun Quotes
I think it's almost impossible to impose a free and liberal society from the outside.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.
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I'm different. I don't speak perfect American. I do have a lilt of an Indian accent. I thought, 'Maybe the world's not okay with what I bring, being Indian.'
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What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?
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America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.
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The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.
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I think it's almost impossible to impose a free and liberal society from the outside.
