Alex Kotlowitz Quotes
In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
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Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
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[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.
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In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...
