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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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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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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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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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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All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
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I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.
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Music's evolutionary origin is established because it is present across all humans; it has been around for a long time; it involves specialized brain structures... and it is analogous to music making in other species.
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I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
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You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.
