Alexander Masters Quotes
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.
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I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.
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The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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What is left of you once your clothes have had their say?
