Alex Prager Quotes
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
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From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.
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I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!
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'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.
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“I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.”
