Alan Hassenfeld Quotes
Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I would love to study cultures and people.
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When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
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The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I've never hidden my Christianity in Hollywood, and I've been handled respectfully because I handle the issue and other people respectfully.
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Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.
