Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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All the angels in the whole universe care about you; and if God wants to dispatch them all, He can do it.
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Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.
