Alexander Stille Quotes
To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
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It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.
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By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
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I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.
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To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.
