Alexander Fraser Tytler Quotes
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.
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Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
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And there's always one special element. In 'There Goes My Baby,' it's the out-of-tune timpani. 'Stand by Me,' it's the bass pattern. Of course, all the elements come together to make a great record. But there's always one standout.
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The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.
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No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
