Alan Ryan Quotes
The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day week, or state-appointed priests, or rectangular departements, or the cult of the Supreme Being.
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Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
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If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.
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Love stories should be relatable.
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.
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How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
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With our team, we're still learning what's a good enough lead. We didn't use the clock wisely and they made some big plays.
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I think it was a gift. I was very disappointed in my skate.
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The government will pay certain farmers to not grow corn. Wow. Where's my check? That'd be great. "Hey, what do you do for a living?" "Well, I don't grow corn. Get up at the crack of noon, make sure there's no corn growing. I'm gonna get up early tomorrow. And not plow. You know, we used to not grow tomatoes-but there's more money in not growing corn."
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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The existential trauma had a physical basis in the first electric extension of our nervous system.
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Fidelity is an overrated virtue. I feel so because people hardly follow it and so it becomes overrated.
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The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day week, or state-appointed priests, or rectangular departements, or the cult of the Supreme Being.
