Alexander Stubb Quotes
Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.
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This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.
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Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.
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A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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I have a lot of friends that are actors, and I'm blessed to even have a job.
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Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
