Alfons Heck Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.
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I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
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I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
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Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.
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I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
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The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
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I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.
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Moving to New York is a big, brave thing to do.
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I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.
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I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
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The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.
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The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?
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Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.
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There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.
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What the Muslims do to their own children is worse than Hitler.
