Alfred Sutro Quotes
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a smile when some young lady, who has obviously not taken care of herself through diet or exercise, says admiringly, 'Ooh, I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age!' Although it's intended to be complimentary, it's actually a back-hander.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.
