Alan Wolfe Quotes
Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend time around Blackhawk helicopters, I will close my eyes that night and live an entire day in Iraq, flying my missions. I remember the smell and the feel and the heat and everything about it. Then I wake up in Illinois, and I'm exhausted.
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I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
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It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.
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No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.
