Alexis De Veaux Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
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Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
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“Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.”
