Alan Woods Quotes
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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I love apple juice.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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I'd get to a point with my colleagues when I couldn't explain any further, because it came down to 'To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.'.
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Jesus knew - knew - that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.
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I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
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I know if it was the Time 99, I would've been off the list.
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A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
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If there is one quality that I find is more essential to a successful and happy life than any other, it is empathy. It is at the core of family stability and love. I’ve never had a couple come to me and say, 'I want a divorce; my partner understands me.'
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Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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Blame someone else and get on with your life.
