Alan Gottlieb Quotes
A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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I'm drawn to bad romances.
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Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
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There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Zemlinsky, who was to be on the panel of judges, played through the first few for Schoenberg and, finding them “wonderful and truly original,” agreed with him that, regrettably, “precisely on that account they would have little chance of winning the prize.”
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If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.
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The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.
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A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.
