Alexander Isley Quotes
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
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Value is what you get.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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You give before you get.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!
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I might have faults but I'm not a big head.
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I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.
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I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.
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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
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Tell my friends to get me out of here.
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I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.
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People are mostly happiest when they think they're just about to get the thing they want most. Before and after, they're all monsters.
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For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.
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Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.
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If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
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Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.
