Alan Rufus Quotes
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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 was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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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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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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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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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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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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In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.
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There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.
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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
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Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world.
