Alexander Wilson Quotes
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
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Pussycat, pussycat,You're so thrilling and I'm so willingto care for you.So go and make up you big little pussy cat eyes.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
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An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.
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I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
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It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.
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Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
