Alan Rufus Quotes
Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!

Quotes to Explore
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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Winning is definitely contagious.
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One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.
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I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.
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I expect to make a career out of country music.
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And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
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Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!