Alex Blumberg Quotes
People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.
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I will keep working hard!
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.
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People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.
