Alex McLeish Quotes
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Life is crap but, every day is an experience.
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This was a breakout game for Leanne. She really came through when we needed it most.
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By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.
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As Harvard’s Daniel Gilbert puts it, our future selves often “pay good money to remove the tattoos that we paid good money to get.
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Once, after the Anschluss, I was stopped by a policeman for jaywalking. He ordered me to pay a stiff fine. “But I am Jewish,” I said. That was all he needed to hear to know that I was penniless and could not possibly pay, and he let me go. So you see, when they tell you that they did not realize how the Jews were being despoiled, you must never believe them. They all knew.
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
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Tragedy levels the playing field.
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Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.
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The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race-- The human race.
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I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.
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It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.
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We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
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We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.
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We had no hesitation sending on Ross, because of his set-piece prowess.
