Allen Lacy Quotes
All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
Quotes to Explore
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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I don't have many friends.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.
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We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.
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These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.
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The only thing they recognize is a buffet.
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The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.
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All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
