Alec Monopoly Quotes
I spent maybe a week all day every day working on the wall, my first legal wall because I was just so excited and it was nice to be able to chill and relax and work on the piece instead of doing it quickly and running from the cops or whatever. Then it just really grew from there. Other people saw it and appreciated the skill.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
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I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
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Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.
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I spent maybe a week all day every day working on the wall, my first legal wall because I was just so excited and it was nice to be able to chill and relax and work on the piece instead of doing it quickly and running from the cops or whatever. Then it just really grew from there. Other people saw it and appreciated the skill.
