Alex Majoli Quotes
I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.
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Com'รจ in proverbio, ognun corre a far legnaAll'arbore che 'l vento in terra getta.
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The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
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When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.
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I have a very easy life, I can wander around.
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You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
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I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.
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I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
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I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.
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I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.
