Alan Sillitoe Quotes
The long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.
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The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
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And some sad news… the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities.
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Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can't help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I'm in one place for longer than three months.
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.
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If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
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The long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself
