Alfred Wainwright Quotes
Clouds are the most transient of nature's creations. They come out of a clear sky, disintegrate before your eyes, vanish. You never see the same cloud twice. Every moment of its brief existence brings a change, a change of form or tint or texture; but its beauty remains constant to the end. The beauty of the clouds is there for us to see every day, if we are not too busy to look up....
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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I was tested against the best.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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It's not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that's what I set out to do from the beginning - I've based my entire career off of just trying to do that for them - but I always kind of forget that my real life friends can hear my music and they can watch my interviews if they want and that's when I get kind of like- "oh..." - I don't necessarily sit down and talk to my friends about all the things that I write my music about, because it's easier for me to write music than to sit and talk to my friends about it sometimes- it's almost like writing in a diary.
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Clouds are the most transient of nature's creations. They come out of a clear sky, disintegrate before your eyes, vanish. You never see the same cloud twice. Every moment of its brief existence brings a change, a change of form or tint or texture; but its beauty remains constant to the end. The beauty of the clouds is there for us to see every day, if we are not too busy to look up....
