Allen Lacy Quotes
But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.
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Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
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As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I guess I just do being a man different than some.
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If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.
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Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
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But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.
