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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You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.
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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
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See as a vocalist you aspire to that level of greatness. I’ve been very lucky in my career to be around great artists but you aspire to that kind of vocal prowess. I would love to be in her presence. There are a lot of British artists that I absolutely love and adore to but I’ve been following Lalah since I was a little girl and she’s phenomenal.
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But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.
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We had no hesitation sending on Ross, because of his set-piece prowess.
