Alex Webb Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
