Allan Stratton Quotes
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
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With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
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It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
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A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
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The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I think that I am working to remind myself that it's still my life... you have to enjoy yourself.
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Where there is love there is life; where there is life there is hope.
