Allen W. Wood Quotes
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
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I am no prophet - and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.
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This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.
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It's always been something that I'm so able and willing to talk about that it's kind of foreign to me that people hide their depression and anxiety.
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There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
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Young people should be given good support and freedom in their research. They are the greatest source of scientific creativity because they are not as committed to existing scientific orthodoxy, and they have the energy and enthusiasm to push new ideas.
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We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.
