Allan Stratton Quotes

Why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

Allan Stratton

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• I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

  

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

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• I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

  

  Nancy Astor
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• Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I think I really benefited from going to college.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

  

  Becky G
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• It's no secret that I wear a kippa.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

  

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• We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I only want my work to make people happy.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Night
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• I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
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• Animals, these beings trappedAs I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,Aging, but without knowledge of their age,Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death- Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.

  

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• I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

  

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• Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

  

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• I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

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  • Life
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• Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
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• I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.

  

  Kevin Hart
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• All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.

  

  Chris Weitz
  • Movie
  • Happy

• Why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

  

  Allan Stratton
  • Happy
  • Care
  • Miserable