Alex Bogusky Quotes
You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
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My fault has been honesty and I've been sentenced to a lifetime of independent movies, and that's it. That's how it feels right now.
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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
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What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?
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I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.
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It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.
