Albert Parsons Quotes
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
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L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
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If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'
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A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
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I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
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Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.
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I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?
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Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.
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For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.
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Health and a positive body image are part of my personal values.
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Research has shown that depressed patients without prior histories of abuse or neglect tend to respond much better to antidepressants than patients with those backgrounds.
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Let the voice of the people be heard!
