Alexander Dolgun Quotes
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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People don't have to agree with me. They can say, 'My gosh, I can't believe I'm listening to this guy. I can't disagree with him more.' But at least they know that I'm going to fight for things that I believe in. And I don't need to be in formal office to do that.
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But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.
