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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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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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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It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
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In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
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Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
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I fall in love too terribly hardFor love to ever last.
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Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all.
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I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.
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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.
