Allan Stratton Quotes
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Life is too short to blend in.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.
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The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
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I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.
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I'm trying to be the messenger for the people that pay attention to me. And those people I want to help inspire because a lot of people maybe think it's - they're too cool for school. That's all I can ever do.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Trees are like people. We’re alive, then we’re memories, then we’re not even that.
