Alexander Stubb Quotes
Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.
