Alexis De Veaux Quotes
“Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.”
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
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I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
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It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams. He got me to drive a Corvette, which was pretty awesome, and jumping out of it was even cooler.
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I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond!
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I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
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It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.
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Mathematics is the music of reason.
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I understand that people in the media want this to be a sprint every day, but the truth is a presidential campaign is a marathon.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
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Apart from work, whatever pending things I have to do, I do it in Murshidabad.
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I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
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“Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.”
