Alex Parks Quotes
I'm just getting used to all the interviews and promo things, I'm slowly learning. It's very strange.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.
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I'm a very boring person.
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.
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I'm just getting used to all the interviews and promo things, I'm slowly learning. It's very strange.
