Albert Parsons Quotes
Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
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People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.
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If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.
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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
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To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
