Alec-Tweedie Quotes
He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.
Alec-Tweedie
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
Bart Stupak
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Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
Laura Prepon
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael
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There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'
Tatiana Maslany
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
Walter Kirn
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
Ian Mckellen
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo Galilei
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Ogden Nash
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
Harrison Birtwistle
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
Gavin Newsom
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The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
Carlos Fuentes
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I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
Karen Finerman
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I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
Mahershala Ali
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
Richard Pryor
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He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.
Alec-Tweedie
