Alan Edwin Petty (Alan Judd) Quotes
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.
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As quoted in The Economist (13 February 1982), p. 11
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That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
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I hear better with a pen in my hand.
