Alex Bledsoe Quotes
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
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Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.
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To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
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We have to face the world like it is before we can make it what it should be.
