Alan Sparhawk Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think America has a brilliant future.
-
The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
-
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
-
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
-
New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
-
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
-
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
-
It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
-
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
-
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
-
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
-
And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
-
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
-
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
-
I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
-
His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity - This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleatsThe herd back to the pit of being.
-
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
-
Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend? It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee
-
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
-
I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
-
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
-
The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning.
-
Let some people get rich first.
-
Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.
