Alonzo Bodden Quotes
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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I would never not work.
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When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.
