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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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 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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'You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.'
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A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
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I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels.
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You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up.
