Alec-Tweedie Quotes
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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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.
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Novels are longer than life.
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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.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.
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Dream what you want! Start creating your own reality! Work hard for it and the rest will follow! Love and Blessings!
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He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.
