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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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 wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.
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What you see is what you get. I don't change who I am from public to private.
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I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
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I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
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When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.
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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.
