Alan Curbishley Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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We have said to all the teams down the bottom we have done our hardest.
