Alton Ellis Quotes
My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.
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The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.
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Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
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If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
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Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.
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Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
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My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.
