Alonzo Bodden Quotes
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.
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The Bible is a seemingly inexhaustible source of practical wisdom that could serve as a valuable resource for everyday living.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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I don't eat the same meal or at the same time every single day. You get tired of that real quick. I just try to make sure whatever I'm eating is fresh and clean and good for my body. That's about it.
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Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'
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Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.
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We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.
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I could always make people laugh.
