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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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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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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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
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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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It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.
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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
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Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give me a situation where there are a sufficient number of social resources so people don't have to compete for those resources, and I will show you a society where racism is held in check.
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I think it's almost impossible to impose a free and liberal society from the outside.
