Alan Russell Quotes
The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.
Quotes to Explore
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
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The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.
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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.
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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
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I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
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The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.
