Alexandra Potter Quotes
But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
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I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.
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Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
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I rap on 'Front Porch Junkies' and 'Whatcha Got in that Cup.' I try to channel my inner Lil Wayne and Drake. It's fun to be able to freestyle over a country melody and say country words over a rap song.
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Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return
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If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.
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But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
