Alec-Tweedie Quotes
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
Quotes to Explore
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.
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Never bored on a hoverboard.
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This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
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As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
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Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
