Alex Day Quotes
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
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The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
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To help with knowing if you're good or not, you need a mentor.
