Alan McGlashan Quotes
To endow clock time with numinous meaning is hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
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Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
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To endow clock time with numinous meaning is hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
