Alan Villiers Quotes
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
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Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. ... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
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The human condition is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
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When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.
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Only fools and passengers drink at sea.
