Alan Rufus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .
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I’m not denouncing the church, and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It’s not a church worthy of denouncing.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
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We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.
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One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
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Westerners do not understand that when it comes to the Muslim world, even the most “moderate” of Muslims, if they are religious, all believe in the coming of the Mahdi and the establishment of the Caliphate to rule the entire Globe by changing world laws to adapt the Islamic Sharia. The coming of the Mahdi to religious Muslims is as holy of a belief as the coming of Messiah is to Christians and Jews.
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The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.
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Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world.
