Alfred the Great Quotes
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'
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The timeless moment. - The 'moment' has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
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Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
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Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.
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Every day I am trying to improve my life.
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I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.
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Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
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Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.
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Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.
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I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.
