Alexander Stille Quotes
Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I dress for men.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
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From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.
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Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.
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I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
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When I decided to come back, I wanted to prove to the rest of the world I'm still the best.
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Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
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If the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.
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Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do with Native Americans , that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.
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Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
