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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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I'm still breathing because I have faith. My faith and my kids are the two things that matter.
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How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that's where my values are and that's where my riches are.
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Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!
