Alex Blumberg Quotes
People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.
Quotes to Explore
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I will keep working hard!
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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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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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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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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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's 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 experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.
