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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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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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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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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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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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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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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I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.
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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
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Whatever the other failures of the U.S. government were, it had managed to print an excess of dollars which, combined with the collapse of trade and communication, had severely eroded the currency's value.
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What is left of you once your clothes have had their say?
