Alec Stewart Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
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China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
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Talking about food arouses certain individuals the way talking about sex does others.
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There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.
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This is totally remarkable given the lack of Mr. Cook's specific connection and his decision that the University of Pittsburgh was an appropriate place to steward this American treasure - this undisturbed site.