Alexis Davis Quotes
As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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Belief in the deeper values of the common people is our only hope. We cannot judge from how people behave under pressure of a society that forces them to compete for self-interest or to be excluded. We must step out of our narrow social environment, and learn to know the underprivileged that have never participated in our activities. When we have them with us that will be real change from below.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.
